Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Kudos to the teacher. This is history teaching at its finest. Too bad it came from a Language Arts teacher. 🙂

“Miss Audrey,” in her wheelchair and with her oxygen, looked at the handwritten poems Diamaunte Hale and Jacob Coverdale had brought to her. They were about her.

“Talk to me,” 80-year-old Audrey Curtis said, pulling the seventh-graders to her better ear. “Tell me what it says.”

When they were done reading, she was wiping away tears. And thanking them over and over. Then they handed her an audio recording they had made of her telling them the story of her life.

More scenes like that played out yesterday in the dining room and courtyard at Scioto Community, a South Side senior-care facility that offers nursing and assisted living. The students from Buckeye Middle School handed over recordings of interviews that, they say, have changed their minds about the elderly and demonstrated the importance of human interaction.

Read the whole heartwarming article (and if you are a history teacher reading this, learn from it. Go and do likewise).