The Two Thousand Year Old Stoics and My Kids
The assignment: write a speech acknowledging the challenges Odysseus overcame and give an example about your own personal challenge that you overcame. This assignment was for one of my eighth grade students. He’s been with me since fifth grade so the trust factor within my office walls is pretty high and the candor and vulnerability flows freely. At one tutoring session, my student wanted me to check his outline for that speech assignment. He chose to speak about a few yea