{"id":1294,"date":"2020-05-06T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:14:04","slug":"lessons-from-the-giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2020\/05\/06\/lessons-from-the-giver\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from The Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I often tell my students, in life, you will encounter people that you may not necessarily get along with, and you have to adapt accordingly.  For today\u2019s Teacher Appreciation Week post, I\u2019d like to share a lesson I learned during my first year of teaching in Kansas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My partner teacher was a flighty, creative soul who felt passionately that it was her <a href=\"https:\/\/catonthebookshelf.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/25\/9-reasons-why-you-need-to-read-speak-right-now\/\">responsibility<\/a> to teach Laurie Halse Anderson\u2019s novel <em>Speak<\/em> to our eighth grade girls, which left me with the entire 8th grade boys\u2019 population for the duration of a novel unit.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I mentioned earlier, it was my first year teaching.\u00a0 My partner teacher and I were not exactly \u2026 compatible.\u00a0 I honestly felt like she threw me in the deep-end of the pool and shrugged her shoulders.\u00a0 That \u201cSink or Swim\u201d experience was an eye-opener for me. (And, I\u2019m not going to lie &#8211; it did impact how I felt about \u201cmentor\u201d teachers.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I distinctly remember standing in the book room\u2026 feeling overwhelmed and completely alone.\u00a0I was instructed to pick a book to teach the boys &#8211; and it <em>had <\/em>to be a book that wasn\u2019t taught by any other teacher, and it <em>had<\/em> to be a book that we had enough copies of\u2026 and don&#8217;t forget to choose wisely, because &#8220;middle school boys are reluctant readers.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ended up finding copies of <em>The Giver<\/em> by Lois Lowry and I almost cried from relief.&nbsp; There weren\u2019t enough copies, but I made it work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51R8AA8QEVL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon.com: The Giver (9780385732550): Lowry, Lois: Books\"\/><figcaption>Book Cover for The Giver by Lois Lowry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Ultimately the weeks we devoted to <em>The Giver<\/em> taught me many things I still incorporate in my craft today &#8211; and I am grateful to the students for helping me through one of the most challenging times of my first year teaching.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I often tell my students, in life, you will encounter people that you may not necessarily get along with, and you have to adapt&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/2020\/05\/06\/lessons-from-the-giver\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons from The Giver<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbaghela\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}