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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