My intern Max delivers a lesson today to 9th graders in a unit study of Elie Wiesel’s Night. Today, he’s asking them to think, write, and speak about indifference. My sixth period, usually rambunctious, squirrely, silly, noisy, rises to the occasion today with seriousness, sincerity, and hope. Max, my intern, asks, What’s our obligation towardContinue reading “#336: Kids These Days”
Tag Archives: classroom
Diary of an English Teacher in His Penultimate Year, Redux: Kids These Days, Part Deux
Apparently, for $16.36, you can buy a tub of communion wafers from Amazon. And I know this because a student of mine came to class the other day with a tub of communion wafers. He was passing them out. Snacks for his classmates. At first, I was just sort of dumbfounded. It was a brandContinue reading “Diary of an English Teacher in His Penultimate Year, Redux: Kids These Days, Part Deux”
michael jarmer 