School is officially out today. Mark will be coming home exhausted and a bit sad about saying goodbye to his eighth graders. Last days are strangely bittersweet. Less than a month ago I said goodbye to my poetry undergrads and I too came home with a mixture of excitement, sadness and relief in my chest.
A good last day of school activity that I’ve done for the past few semesters is one that requires each student to write his/her name on the top of a sheet of paper. Since I’ve taught creative writing workshops, the students are already sitting with their desks in a circle, so this helps with the activity. The paper then gets passed around in the circle in one direction and as each student receives each paper they write, in a sentence or two, a compliment, a kind memory, or something they learned from their classmate {whose name is at the top of the sheet}. Eventually, each students receives their paper back again. I urge students to spend the last few minutes of class reading over it and to keep it for a rainy day or a stressful week throughout their undergraduate years.
And now that it is officially Summer, I have written down my five thoughts of self-motivation for June. This is a new blog installment. I am a big list maker, I have to to-do, to-read and to-make lists everywhere. So I decided to make my life easier by narrowing things down and to hold myself accountable for my five each month by sharing them here, with you.
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