He got this incredulous look on his face as the light dawned. In band, he’s playing saxophone as well as the rest of the section.Īt the end of his recounting of the day, I chuckled: In science, he had already worked at home with a variety of measurement systems they introduced. In Spanish, he aced the first quiz as well. In his geometry class, he got 100% on the algebra review quiz. Then she assigned a freewrite on the first day of class and his comment to us was: “I used three huge vocabulary words in my freewrite just to play around. Jacob listed the plays he’s seen (about 20) and when he got to A Winter’s Tale and The Merry Wives of Windsor, the teacher shut him down chuckling saying that when they read Julius Caesar later that fall, they’d consult Jacob as the resident Shakespearean expert.
When the teacher asked the students who had seen a Shakespeare play, he raised his hand along with a few other students. I’m so bugged at myself.” I reminded him he could read it over Christmas break, and he cheered up.
He said, “Dad kept telling me to read that book and I haven’t yet. In fact, he was a bit miffed that they had assigned Lord of the Flies and he had not read it yet. He told us that in his English class, every book (save one) and most of the short stories the teacher had slated for the year, he’d already read. He returned from a long day “in the building” on that first day of classes exhausted. Leading up to the fateful day, he shared off-handedly in the car that he was looking forward to going to school because “we hadn’t done anything for three years” at home.Įxcuse me? After I picked up my slain ego off the floor of the van, I reminded him of a few things he could “count” as school… He cares about me, so he listened sympathetically but perhaps unconvinced. My son Jacob just started full-time high school. This came home to me in two ways this week. …which undergird any and all writing and reading you do as a family. And I’ve tried to make it clear that Brave Writer is not just a bunch of writing techniques, but rather: I’ve devoted dozens of pages on the website and this blog to helping parents catch a vision for how it works. They work.” I know many mothers hope to hear something like that. I sometimes get a little agitated by the question because I can’t just point to an outline of assignments and say: “Do these. I get emails often asking how Brave Writer works.
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