Nui nui has her SSAT's on Saturday. On top of math and verbal...there is an essay portion. So I spent the night coaching NN on how to write an essay... how to generate a topic sentence. How to create an outline. And after an outline... you can, as {{someone}} puts it... you "paint with words."
There are so many ways of writing an essay.. generating a topic... citing examples. And NN simply has not experienced life to write a full blown essay.
Jogs back memory of 6th grade...when I once wrote "Who I love most." I wrote... the people I love most is God and Mary. It was from my heart. It was a true answer. The teacher read my essay publicly....anonomously. Afterwards... my classmates came up to me and asked if it was my essay. I didn't think anything of it and answered, "Yes." I was immediately accused of being a suck-up. I wasn't ready for that response. Why would anyone question my true values???
I don't want to stop NN from expressing herself. To show her true colors. But is that limiting her in the real world?
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