Front Page on the Hope CCSF Gives People and My Students' Sweet Messages

Having played too much this weekend (in French, Spanish, and English), I'm finishing my homework early this morning, and that includes getting lessons online.  While I was at it, I checked for messages from my students and found such sweet and funny ones. A student I complimented on his acting ability (he made the dialogue on interrupting convincing) and advised on what he needed to do to be 100% successful in writing an e-mail message wrote "Thank you for your preciously advice Miss Tina I greatly appreciate your kindness."  Another answered my question about the identity of the adorable baby in the picture attached to his e-mail, and he told me that was him on his 100th day.  "I was cuter then, wasn't I?" he asks.  (I told him that my son, just to be funny, put a picture of a horse's head on his profile for Facebook, but now that it's the Year of the Horse that seems appropriate.)

One very earnest student told me she's attended the Story Corps but there had been just a conference, not a story interview.  She wanted to know whether she should still write a report.  I'd like to reward her for going, but since I see the result of grading students on their efforts instead of on their skills, I asked her to write a report on what she saw and heard there.  Then I'll grade her report.  I hope it's good!

I'll be back to tell about Nanette Asimov's front-page feature profiling 5 students who have been given new hope by courses at CCSF.  I also like it when students give us hope, as my students sometimes do!