In my new classes (at ALA, where the schedule is determined by colored blocks) the Green class wrote a small book (a folded-over piece of paper) in response to the prompt: Are you genius or are you magic?
Green will write books during our time together.
In Grey, (slightly younger kids), everyone wrote out what they want, what they need, and what they demand (stolen from Charlie’s “Very clear ideas”) and we went from there. They will make short videos and start ALA’s YouTube channel . . . I hope.
The Blues? We just talked about mental balance, the way writing helps you fashion a more compelling relationship to oneself, and why “people are annoying.” And I am not sure yet what they will do.
We went (almost) the whole time in all the classes without anyone touching anything with a computer chip in it. So there’s a win in that, though we will have to see how long this victory lasts . . .
(For the record I am here for a term, assigned to work with the faculty but due to a glitch, I am doing more work in the classroom than expected. Which is a gas. Rule #1 of teaching: If you are bored, they will be bored.)
In response to a point I made in yesterday’s post, Dan K. wrote:
Between the Frisian Calvinists, the old religious apartheid, and the progressive Hollanders — in whose cities almost no Jews survived — they have the thinnest of excuses. Those polders are held up by the Dutch powers of denial. Eventually, the sea will return and have us all.