I loved doing the activity that Rubin suggested on our last day of class. What a wonderful way to end the semester. I learned so much about my classmates. They have so much to offer their future students! It was a very personal moment for me to speak about my father. I think that's why I was so emotional. This activity was totally relevant to our course because as adult students in higher education, we too face many obstacles in our lives and we work to overcome them so that we can achieve our goals.
Kudos to Professor Gleason for ending our class so nicely!
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Mighty this is Malena, could you confirm you got this comment, please. I'm supposed to respond to you,and was having trouble.
ReplyDeleteMy response to the wooden shack: Boy do I relate to your entire comment. First of all, I grew up in the south Bronx, living on top of a bar till my mother was able to move my brother and I into a normal home. My mother did manage to get me into a catholic school, which was better than public schools in that area. Even though the other kids were from the Bronx, I could sense that most of them were educationally and socioeconomically better off than I, perhaps wrongfully so at times. Secondly, my mother and father, who came to this country from Cuba before Castro took over, had no education. Thus, I was left to my own poor or imaginary devices to figure the world out. And yes, I probably would've been way more "off the mark" than Robert if I were having that same conversation with Prof. Rose. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to feel as if a space ship landed on earth from another planet and dropped me off. That said, would you believe I've had the nerve, to have the nerve, to grow impatient and show disappointment on my face, when students have "misread" a poem, especially if I felt very connected to the poem: "How dare they...?" Anyway, like you, I have to keep reminding myself how difficult it was for me to understand literature--of all genres, when I was a kid in school. When I'm able to do this, my tolerance level rises. Memory is my strategy. Good Luck!