{"id":1025,"date":"2010-06-17T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:05:34","slug":"why-i-do-my-job-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/why-i-do-my-job-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Do My Job, Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tina was also one of my third graders from the 2008-2009 school year.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the body:<\/p>\n

Dear Ms. Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for helping me to learn writing. You also taught me the story map. At first I thought that writing was lame so that’s why I was so bad at writing stories, but after a while of hard work with writing you inspired me to write stories in all my lifetime. I understand how important writing is now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next up is the read aloud. I know you try to pick the best books for us and I appreciate that. Also you have a great voice for that. When you read you say it so dramatically that I feel that I’m actually there and when you talk like Bradley Chalkers from There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom <\/span>or Byron from The Watsons go to Birmingham <\/span>I feel like I can actually hear them because when somebody<\/span> exclaimed something <\/span>I actually felt that somebody exclaiming that something. <\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for the cool Scott’s sixties mixes*. I listen to it almost every day. I loved when we went into poems. I loved poetry night. My favorite type of poem was the limericks and the haikus.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once again thank you for this whole year of joy and fun.<\/em><\/p>\n

Love,<\/em><\/p>\n

———<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. Mommy didn’t help me at all!<\/em><\/p>\n

I love this. Especially the part about somebody<\/span> and something<\/span>.<\/p>\n

*While I read aloud The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963<\/em> (which everyone should read, by the way), I teach them the Motown songs that are mentioned in the story and others from the same period. After we’re done with the story, I give each kid a CD called “Ms. Scott’s Sixties Mix” with all the tunes on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tina was also one of my third graders from the 2008-2009 school year. Here’s the body: Dear Ms. Scott, Thank you for helping me to learn writing. You also taught me the story map. At first I thought that writing was lame so that’s why I was so bad at writing stories, but after a … Continue reading Why I Do My Job, Part 6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}