This week, students discussed what struggle means to them personally, and then were able to see what their peers identify as personal struggles. This changed a lot of student's minds about what struggle is! It was a great revelation to see!Now that we've identified and discussed our own struggles, we are moving on to identifying the struggles of others and how they react or change to them. We have been reading a chapters of Bridge to Terabithia and Firegirl and analyzing what struggles the characters go through. Next week, we will begin identifying and analyzing struggles in nonfiction text, including a focus on Lauren Hill, the Mount St. Joseph University basketball player who only has a year to live.
Please ask your child about struggle and discuss how our ideas of struggle change when learning about what others have gone through. They have learned an important lesson when talking about struggle: never say something isn't a struggle, simply acknowledge that it is not your struggle.
