Makes It All Worth It!

We just finished "The Crucible" on Wednesday, and for their final test, the students had to formulate three questions of varying levels of difficulty and ask them of one another while sitting in a circle of 10-12 students. They were to carry on conversations about the text, and they did a phenomenal job for their first time. What got me, though, was reading the comment of one student regarding what he'd learned from the activity. He said he learned that his fellow students could care about an assignment and was surprised by how well their conversations went. A positive, pro-learning comment. I tried not to make too big a deal of it, but I did write a big "YAY" on his paper...a big drop in my unceasingly draining bucket...Thanks, DW.