BAM!

I was tempted to search for a photo of Emeril Lagasse since my mentee has decided to "kick things up a notch" but this image is much more appropriate.


She feels comfortable enough with what we had accomplished so far that she doesn't want to continue practicing it, well, let me rephrase that. She doesn't feel the need for me to be close by to hold her hand. She'd like to move on to new skills (which we hadn't anticipated when we originally planned our sessions) and so we are going to take a close look at a grant she wrote earlier this school year.

Being a creamics teacher, she wanted to introduce her students to the art of raku and wrote a grant in order to be able to furnish the materials for this curriculum unit. We sat down and looked at the standards as she had listed them for the activities that were planned. She had added in some tech components but they were very vague. Also, some perhaps were not basic enough for the first baby steps. We decided on one tech component that could be accomplished this term (which will be rather elaborate if students opt to do the full audio-visual route with a powerpoint). Closer review of the grant will be done through the end of the year (yes, we're meeting beyond the required mentor/mentee time).

Last of all, many thanks to Cory Scott for this wonderful image of a raku firing. Wikimedia Commons is an exceptional site for royalty-free images (so long as you abide by fair use policies and attribute things correctly).