Z's Corner

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Lately, in Theology class, we’ve been talking about the 10 commandments and how they tie to issues of morality.

 

When you talk about issues of morality, it seems that current and past events where morality was in question come up often. I think that’s the most interesting part of class to me.

 

 

 

 

 

Parents

I like to voice my opinion on subjects because unlike many people in private schools I have developed my own views on many things and don’t just adopt my views from my parents.

The thing I’ve adopted from my parents is the ability and choice to develop my own beliefs and opinions on certain things.

 

Multiple Interpretations

I like to talk about certain issues in society because I like to see how many different ways people can take one thing. There are so many interpretations on different subjects out there, and I like to hear as well as be heard.

As long as people speak with maturity and with a purpose, I don’t judge or become frustrated with another person’s opinion on a given issue.

 

It depends on what the issue is though.

 

Whether or not it’s a race thing has a big effect on how I would react to certain things.

 

Republicans

If it’s a political thing, for the most part, I wouldn’t become upset with the way Republicans are speaking because I’m used to how inconsiderate and ignorant they can be because I’ve been in private school for so long now.

 

Democrats

That’s not to say that Democrats can’t be ignorant either. I’ve heard some pretty ignorant things said on both sides. Anyway, I digress. I think it’s cool that so many people are in one place talking about the same thing in a civilized nature and seeing both sides through conversation.

 

 P.S. Why do I even have to take a theology class?  Ahahaaa

 

Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva Vernick

What have I been reading?  

 

 

 

Here's the gist, but please see the review in an upcoming issue of VOYA.

Who?

Johnny & his older cousin, Remember Dippy, “Yes, that’s right, his name is Remember—straight out of some New Age baby-naming book” (p. 5).

What?

In exchange for room & board, Johnny “helps out with” Remember Dippy, who is autistic

When?

Summer vacation

Where?

 Present-day; fictitious town in Vermont, “Hull, Vermont, should be named Dull, Vermont" (p.3).

Get lucky; read a book

from Google

"If we are lucky each of us has, in our reading lives, a book that leaves us forever changed, a book that causes us to think about ourselves before and after we met the characters and ideas on the page." ~~Pamela K. Coke

 

 

 

So What?

Coke sums up why I wanted to become an English teacher, why I write this blog, and why I have chosen to write articles and books about authors and their work.

I am convinced my life would have taken a different turn had it not been for books read during adolescence that changed me forever.

I can’t thank all those responsible, but thanks, especially to,

Mama, who put the first book in my hand.

*Ms. Artis

Maya Angelou (autobiographical series)

Mildred D. Taylor (e.g., Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry)

Malcolm X (autobiography)

Judy Blume (e.g., Tiger Eyes)

 

Source:

“It's in My Hands: Creating a Space for Nonfiction in the Literature Classroom," Signal Journal, 31.2, Fall 2008, p. 20-24.

*Ms. Artis was my eighth grade English and French teacher.