The First Book
Michelle on Jan 26 2007 at 12:33 am | Filed under: The Teaching
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Today, I had one of those moments that makes a teacher’s heart go pitter-patter. One of my students, who is about to be 18 and is in 10th grade, told me today that the book I gave him is the very first book he has ever sat down to read. It is about a boy whose brother gets killed in a drive-by shooting. This happened to my student this past summer. I hope the book helps him to see his life from a new perspective.
Cool that he is finally reading a book.
Cool that he told me.
What a great moment. I love those experiences when you’ve shared something with someone & you know, you JUST know, that it will be something they will take with them forever. Yeah!
Celebrating with you … JP
That is cool. It’s those little moments which make it all worthwhile; sad there aren’t more of them.
Wonderful. That could be a really important moment in this guy’s life, you know.