Everyone is Someone In the Making
-Impact intellectual and emotional development
8th Grade Moving Up... as awards were announced, the words that were read for one particular presentation stayed with me long after the ceremony was over.
When Ms. Litts gave her English award she said (paraphrased) - Shane is an author in the making ... what a powerful accolade -- an author in the making, not someone who got excellent grades in English or someone who would be an author someday, but someone who was an author in the making.
-Compare the interactions between teacher and learner in "Finding Forrester", "Mr. Holland's Opus", and "Songs of the Heart" ...'
> Forrester uses "kick in the butt", heavy handed red-pen treatment to inform and motivate his young apprentice.
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Tour of the Capitol
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My principal exhortation to you today is to go forth and raise hell,'' the Doonesbury'' cartoonist Garry Trudeau said at Trinity College in Hartford. Surprise yourselves. Surprise your parents. Surprise the world.''
Following are other excerpts:
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories - By Bill Mitchell - Poynter Online
"Published daily in the paper's special section, "A Nation Challenged," the profiles typically focus on a single aspect of the subject's character or an especially endearing talent or trait. They often include a little life lesson -- the extrovert who learned to seek out unhappy people at parties, the creator of family surprises, the friend who never lost touch -- that Times reporters have managed to reveal and celebrate in a couple of dozen words."