[LIT] that time of year...

[Bill IVEY]

Hi!

I don't know about most of your schools, but in my school, this is
probably the lowest point in the year. So what better time than now to...
celebrate our successes!

In my case, I am really excited about the first drafts of literary
analysis essays that my ESL students are producing. One of them, although
her vocabulary is extremely limited, managed to turn in two or more pages
on friendship, discussing at length (on paper and with me in conference)
issues around making and keeping friends through thick and through thin.
Another produced work which, a few grammar tweaks aside, shows that she
has come light years in terms of being able to express sophisticated
thinking in English. It is so cool to see these kids developing the
English to express that which has been inside them all along!

What successes are you all seeing?

Take care,
Bill Ivey
Stoneleigh-Burnham School