Dorothy started middle school this week! A few days in, I told her, "I'm hopeful that you won't have behavior problems in your main classes this year, because in your academic classes (math, science, English, and social studies), all of the students have good grades and high test scores. In your electives, you have a mix of all kinds of students." "That makes sense," Dorothy replied, "because in art, all the kids were shooting mechanical pencils at each other."
Dorothy was enthusiastic about her first week of studies. She excitedly shared, "In English, we were talking about point-of-view, and I thought that the narrator was third-person limited, but the teacher thought it was third person-omniscient, so I made an argument that included both examples from the text and from real life."
