What selfishness I display in my work.
When student writers are given free rein in their choices of subject matter, they write of a three year old girl so struck by her first nursing home meeting with her great-grandmother that upon returning home thirteen hundred miles away, she laboriously, with crayons and Sesame Street instruction, wrote cards to "Lucy" regularly until Lucy died a year and a half later. The cards surrounded Lucy's bed.
Another writes of the fowling piece, jewelry, wedding dresses, table linen, Brownie camera, mallard-headed mahogany cane, and more that she keeps to keep her ancestors alive.
Another writes of a group of nurses, an off-duty x-ray tech, a doctor, and a mother crowded into a hospital room cheering as a sick and weary young woman sweats out her first step in many months.
When student writers are given free rein in their choices of subject matter, they restore their teachers.
When student writers are given free rein in their choices of subject matter, they write of a three year old girl so struck by her first nursing home meeting with her great-grandmother that upon returning home thirteen hundred miles away, she laboriously, with crayons and Sesame Street instruction, wrote cards to "Lucy" regularly until Lucy died a year and a half later. The cards surrounded Lucy's bed.
Another writes of the fowling piece, jewelry, wedding dresses, table linen, Brownie camera, mallard-headed mahogany cane, and more that she keeps to keep her ancestors alive.
Another writes of a group of nurses, an off-duty x-ray tech, a doctor, and a mother crowded into a hospital room cheering as a sick and weary young woman sweats out her first step in many months.
When student writers are given free rein in their choices of subject matter, they restore their teachers.
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