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I have really enjoyed this class this semester. Even though things
started out slowly, I think we finished strong. First, I just want to say again that I enjoyed having Vicki come to
our class. I feel like she opened my eyes to the fact that some day I might have a student that has a hearing loss.
I always knew that I will definitely have students that will be hard to deal with, and that I will have students with
learning disabilities. However, I never thought about having a student with a hearing loss. Even though she was
only here for a few weeks, I feel like a learned a lot in that short amount of time. Therefore, I hope that she will
be able to come to your classes in the future, because she is a great guest speaker.
I enjoyed Vicki, but working at Apache with Desaundra, Tyler, and Tristen was my
favorite asignment for this class. I worked with Desaundra the most, but the last several weeks Fredrick and I teamed
our kids up and worked in a group. Working in a group helped all of us share ideas and help each other, so I am glad
we decided to work together. Desaundra was a little shy at first and really quiet; however, the more we got to know
one another, the more she opened up to me. There were days that she did not seem to interested in writing her poem or
her story, but in the end she seemed proud of her finished products. She had decided to write her family story
about their family trip to Seaworld, and so I told her that I was writing my family story about Seaworld too. Knowing
that we had something in common helped us to start building a relationship with each other, which made it easier to work together.
She is such a smart kid, I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to work with her. The day we wrote her first draft,
I told her how proud of her I was and I thought she had a great story to tell. I could see her face light up.
She started telling me about all the other stories she had written at home, and she really wanted me to read them. It
made me feel good that she wanted to share her stories with me, I knew then that she felt comfortable with me getting to know
her a little bit more. This was such a good experience for me, and I hope that my fellow classmates had a good experience
at Apache too. On Thursday we will have the Author's Chair, and I am excited to meet the parents and hear the students
share their stories. As I said before, we finished the semester strong, we finished with a BANG!
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