Friday

TGIF!
im sitting here at work in a little room waiting for students that don't come to help them with their writing. Most really don't want help, they want me to rewrite their papers for them. I've graded my students papers for the week, planned my lessons for next week, and now I have no excuse not to work on my novel. Wait, I want to talk about the movie I showed in class yesterday. Bowling for Columbine. What a great movie. We are learning a bout multimedia approaches to argument and I think this movie is a perfect example. Whatever you think of Michael Moore, his subject matter appearance etc., the man is a genius! He intersperses humor amid the horror of Columbine, uses music to make his point, employs clips from Southpark and Chris Rock to show our love affair with violence in this country to create a tight, compelling story of gun violence in America. Most of my students liked the movie , and made some very thoughtful commets, one made my heart soar, when she responded to my comment that many people didn't like Moore. she said "He tells the truth".. I said , " Do we want to know the truth"? and she replied, No, I guess we don't. Just when i think I'm teaching to the wall, somebody gets it, and I am thrilled. If you're not a teacher, at any level, you can't understand that wonderful feeling, when a student sees the light.
I'll live on that all weekend.
Peace