[CALIBK12] great letter in NEA today

[barbdon]

	"in your words" article of the current (sept. ) NEA Today, are some  
great letters--particularly 2 from an english teacher and a library  
media specialist....

happy reading....barb scheifler
			retired TL

September 2008


In Your Words
Talk Back!
       What I hope students will remember most about me

"Growing up, I was quite the bookworm. Reading took me to amazing  
places, and my passion for reading and literature has only grown. When  
I'm teaching Shakespeare, Poe, and Wright, that passion is what I want  
my students to experience. Most kids think reading is boring and lame,  
so I show them my passion so that they, too, can feel it. I act out  
what I'm reading and get the students fully engrossed in the  
literature. I may make a fool of myself, but that's what I want them  
to remember in 20 years...that reading can be fun."

Nichole Lesniak, Woodbridge, New Jersey


"As a library media specialist, I hope that my students remember me as  
the librarian who actually talked to them! The libraries of my youth  
were as quiet as a graveyard. Librarians may have smiled at you, but  
nobody ever cheerfully asked, "How are you today?" or "What did you  
think about that book?" I always found it strange that books were so  
colorful and full of life and activity but the libraries that housed  
them were not.

If my students have no conception of the clichéd librarian who wears  
glasses on a chain and constantly hisses "sshh!" then I have done my  
job!"

Judith Furnari, Hannibal, New York


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