From: Betty Ihlenfeldt <Ihlen>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:26:59 -0600

My students have moved a lot. We have military families and we have all kinds of broken family connections and losses and reconnections. And my students are striking out (some of them literally into trouble) trying to get away from their houses/homes. This theme and the stories for them fascinates me, too

I recommend Margaret Mahy's -Memory- which stirs my 9th graders in English. It gives us a young fellow wandering about with amnesia about a trauma.....when he meets Sophie and older woman who has a house but who also has Alzeheimer's in its early stages. Two different ages and sets of needs and greeds give us much to consider.

Betty Ihlenfeldt De Forest High School De Forest, Wisconsin

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." (Jessica Mitford, quoted on the ccc-net, 12?)

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." (Jessica Mitford, quoted on the 12/96 ccbc-net)
Received on Sun 06 Apr 1997 09:26:59 AM CDT