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The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, Lauren Daley is a book columnist and freelance writer. From the moment we enter crying t-to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. Tell me about that blanket!Īnderson: Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. Keating: Forget them, forget them! Stay with the blanket. Keating: That's it! Wonderful, wonderful!Īnderson: And all the time he's mumbling.Īnderson: Mumbling truth…Truth like, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. Keating: Oh, that's excellent! Now, give him action make him do something!Īnderson: H-His hands reach out and choke me. Keating: Close your eyes, close your eyes! Close 'em! Now, describe what you see…Īnderson: A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain. I’ll leave you with my favorite scene in the film, when the shy Todd Anderson, played by Ethan Hawke, is forced in front of the class, pushed by Keating, played by Robin Williams, to create a poem:
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And just look at the type of emotion that movie was able to invoke in people. Keep in mind, as you head back to your classroom tomorrow, that that movie isn’t about superheroes or ninjas or X-Men - it’s about a teacher: One guy who just really cared. I think of the goosebumps, the inspiration and emotion that fluttered through me when I saw it as a kid, that still flutters through me, during so many scenes in that movie. To sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops. One of my favorite movies when I was in high school, and to this day, is “Dead Poet’s Society.” You are woven into the fabric of someone’s, of many someones, beings. I want teachers to know: Everything you do matters in ways you may not ever see realized.Įverything you do in your classroom is part of someone else's childhood. That the books they read will be remembered, that their names will be household names, and that what they teach - that they themselves - will not be forgotten. They don’t always realize they leave lifelong impressions. I could take you through each high school teacher, and college professor.Īs SouthCoast kids and teachers return to school, I want to remind teachers how important they are.īecause teachers often forget, or don't realize at all, how much they matter. MacNeil again, and we read “Romeo and Juliet” in an “easy English for middle schoolers” type format, but I thought it was the real thing, and I’m so excited that I can read Shakespeare, I’m walking on air. I read it again by myself at home.Įighth Grade: Mrs. I felt so bad for the old man in the story that I cry and rub the tears into my sweatshirt sleeve. Seventh Grade: We read “The Snow Goose,” by Paul Gallico aloud in Mrs. Kirschner reads aloud with different accents for each character, and dims the classroom lights like a movie theater. Sixth Grade: We read "Where the Red Fern Grows," by Wilson Rawls, and "The Cay," by Theodore Taylor, and "The Great Gilly Hopkins," by Katherine Paterson, and I remember all of these because Mrs. O has the books on tall carousels that I spin and spin in agonizing decision of what to read next. Belair teaches us about haikus, and I write one about the stars in the night sky that my mom loves so much, it makes me feel like I can be a poet one day.įifth Grade: We’re allowed to read anything we want during SSR. are two of my best students.įourth Grade: Mrs. In my classroom at home, Beast and Emily A. Rooney’s class, and Richard “Beast” Best and Emily Arrow.
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Updegrove reads us chapter books, and I become obsessed with “The Kids at Polk Street School” series by Patricia Reilly Giff.
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Cabral has us write our own books, and I write one about a spaceman named “Avcmbnorf,” or something equally unpronounceable, who was a Weirdo, and lived on Weirdo planet where “everyone was a weirdo.” I hail it a masterpiece, and read it to all my Cabbage Patch Kids. Books we read line the chalkboard ledge around the room - “Owl Moon,” “The Mitten,” “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.” Morash reads “If You Give A Mouse a Cookie” and then gives us all chocolate chip cookies. Keys in a rocking chair, and I’m sitting by her feet to see the book better.įirst Grade: Mrs.
There is a stuffed Olivia that sits on her lap when we read. Keys has a big over-sized book about Olivia the Cat.
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams
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