Coping with Sadness

Finished Life as a House in both of my classes today. I think most of them enjoyed it, and some of them even got some good things out of it. Let's hope their final projects reflect that.

The end of the movie is the heavy part, and it was interesting to watch the different ways they dealt with that. If you had a noise-o-meter in the room, I bet the level of chattiness would have risen gradually and peaked at the saddest parts of the movie. Several of them started getting very distracted when the music turned gloomy, and would strike up conversations with their neighbors instead of watching.

Mr. Neff, that's so not true. I was just bored! That movie wasn't sad. It was boring. In fact, I just leaned over to tell Joe all about how boring I thought the movie was when you threw that apple at my head.

Um . . . can I go to the bathroom?

So fascinating to see how different kids handle emotion differently. (I would have been one of the chatty ones, distracting myself so none of the other kids would see me cry.)

One in particular made me feel very sad. I hadn't considered (until she asked to sit out the movie in another room) how hard it would be to watch this movie if you had just lost your own father to cancer. This was a student I mentioned a couple months ago, and she was really hurting today. Please continue to keep her in your thoughts, especially through the holidays.

Posted: Mon - December 8, 2003 at 01:27 PM

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Coping with Sadness

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