February 24th, 2009 | Mollie Dickson

Falling in love…slowly

Teaching (okay cramming) a month, a year, a lifetime’s worth of lessons on the art and technique of sentence fluency—the intricacies of structure and design, the sights and sounds, the creative style—into six ninety-minute classes… am I crazy? I admit it, yes, but that’s what happens when we fall head-over-heels in love. The crazy within us is let loose and runs wild. Patience, easing in gradually, one-step-at-a-time… these concepts cease to exist. Blindly, we dive in, expecting that the other person involved in the relationship (in my case, 26 6th graders) will be with us 100 percent of the way, holding on tight, fully trusting, as we embark on a new adventure together. And of course, we expect they too will share and reciprocate our passion. (more…)

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