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Student Work
NHS Speech 2017
!Hola clase! It is my privilege to be here. We spend a lot of time learning about privilege in my class, not to feel bad about having it, but to recognize there is a power in it. One that can be used for ill, but more importantly, one that can be used to change the world.
The characters in our books never do anything drastic, or really out of the ordinary, but the world is different because of them. Some for good, like Mariam, some for bad, like Claudius, and like Frankenstein, some for worse. Like these characters, you will make innumerable choices along the way, and never see most of the impact of them, but it is necessary to remember that every tiny step impacts more than just ourselves.
Most of the time, we never even know who or how we impact another. This was a lesson I unknowingly learned as a student myself. When I think back to my time in school, the memories of lessons have become fewer and farther between. I mean I must have learned something because here I am, but my memories of moments in the classroom are more about how my teachers behaved or treated students than what they taught. Just like the characters in our books, they were just living their life, doing their job, thinking their lessons were what would change us, but it was their day-to-day human-ness that did.
Hopefully, I'm here because I've had a positive impact on you. I've had every student here in at least one class, many of you, two, some even three. You might not remember everything I taught you, or possibly anything, and eventually, I may just be that nice or possibly weird lady who made you read books and find the mowaw, but in your writing I have seen into your soul; in my classroom, you have revealed a self to me your family might not even know, and I am here to tell your secrets:
The characters in our books never do anything drastic, or really out of the ordinary, but the world is different because of them. Some for good, like Mariam, some for bad, like Claudius, and like Frankenstein, some for worse. Like these characters, you will make innumerable choices along the way, and never see most of the impact of them, but it is necessary to remember that every tiny step impacts more than just ourselves.
Most of the time, we never even know who or how we impact another. This was a lesson I unknowingly learned as a student myself. When I think back to my time in school, the memories of lessons have become fewer and farther between. I mean I must have learned something because here I am, but my memories of moments in the classroom are more about how my teachers behaved or treated students than what they taught. Just like the characters in our books, they were just living their life, doing their job, thinking their lessons were what would change us, but it was their day-to-day human-ness that did.
Hopefully, I'm here because I've had a positive impact on you. I've had every student here in at least one class, many of you, two, some even three. You might not remember everything I taught you, or possibly anything, and eventually, I may just be that nice or possibly weird lady who made you read books and find the mowaw, but in your writing I have seen into your soul; in my classroom, you have revealed a self to me your family might not even know, and I am here to tell your secrets: