egardless of the 'subject matter', many times it's next to impossible to 'get students excited about anything; however, @ our academic alternative high school, we've seen a 'significant measure of excitment 'crop up' over 'reading', yes, READING...encouraged & lead by our Superintendent, then by our Principal & then by each of us...more books being checked out & read through our library & we've also increased our 'recycling efforts' @ our school, thereby assisting more students w/needs that they have throughout the school year.
Rose Marie/Texas
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I sighed. "Here's why you need to know about the phospholipid bilayer. Some day you are going to be in the intensive-care unit with someone you love hooked up to a lot of tubes. You are going to be asking for a new treatment or a new drug or demanding to know why they aren't getting better. If you remember anything about how research works, you'll be saying, 'I want this patient enrolled in a clinical trial! Now!' "
I had everyone's rapt attention. Like Bible salesmen in foxholes, pro-research lobbyists would do a brisk business in an ICU. I continued, "In the event that the doctor has two minutes to discuss the situation and to describe the biology underlying the disease so that you can look up clinical trials, you are going to need to know what a cell is and how disease can impact it."
It was a pretty good rant, aside from my use of "impact" as a verb. They got it, noting "cell structure" on their to-do lists. I showed the last of the sea-horse film. It wasn't going to be on the final, but I wanted to end the semester with something unique, something they didn't already know. Something we're aware of only because some passionate scientist spends 12 hours a day underwater filming it. Something beautiful and amazing. Biology.
Hoskins lives in New York City.
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