Nov. 11: What is the most important ‘lesson’ you want to teach your students?
I have to modify this to ONE OF the most important lessons because, well, that's a really big question. In a world where everything competes for their attention -- where opiates and elixirs try to anesthetize, where life is scary and beautiful, threatening and hopeful -- I want my students to learn to speak up to advocate to think for themselves. My one wish would be that they would leave this room with the knowledge -- the sacred knowledge -- that their voice matters, that their words hold weight, that their actions bring change. That they have power. (Because it's really about so much more than iambic pentameter, Poe, and pronoun agreement.) So I model and instruct and provide an arena for opinions and voices and individual styles. I teach that revision isn't just a writing skill; it's a life skill, that reflection and change can renew. And also, I pray.
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