Throughout the years, I've really come to believe that each situation I'm in is a chance to learn from someone else's story. This week, that was definitely true in English class! We had a substitute para for the day who was helping students in my sixth hour.
The students were working to write dialogue, when the para said, "You know, it's so true. I've written a book and dialogue was the most difficult place to really capture the action and the characters." Our para was Mrs. Donna Boddy, who published the book "Angel on a Mission" in 2011 and is working on the sequel.
With a quick change in the lesson, we had time for the students to ask questions about what it's really like to write a book. What an awesome chance for the students to learn! So many of them raised their hands that they wanted to write a book. We have some budding authors!
Mrs. Boddy talking with the students. Check out her website at http://donnaboddy.com/.
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