The Awakening of the Sleeping Giants:
As winter is slowly setting in, there is an air of apprehension, anxiety and excitement seeping into our students. We have sticking to the revision of Argumentative Essay Writing for the last 4/5 days and today I wanted to wind up the topic with Bertrand Russell’s “What I Have Lived For” in XII Arts B. But some students forgot to bring their textbooks and as I also couldn’t tell them yesterday, we had to do something ad hoc. Someone suggested writing stories. But I could foresee some problem at once, while the serious ones would be busy writing, a handful of students would while away their time just like that. I had to do something quickly and whatever I wanted to do had to be done differently. I asked them to write at least 10 sentences about their classroom, which would be a part of their stories later on. Yesterday I thought of letting the students sharpen their story writing skills in the other section, XII Sc B. At the start of the lesson in that class, I asked them to think o...