Day 85- "The first key to writing is...to write, not to think."- Finding Forrester

Friday the 13th. Symbolism would make this a black day Friday, but alas, the literary gods missed the memo and today was a red day. With our finals starting on a black day (and if you have figured out our fubared schedule by now, I need to buy you a drink), this left a couple of days of flux since one class gets a day less of instruction. I decided earlier this week I would introduce my seniors to what a good movie actually looks like, so I showed the first part of Finding Forrester. This is one of my all-time favorite movies, and the fact that the main character is a writer just fits this class like a glove. Not a single one of my students had seen it before, and probably only a handful of them would ever watch it on their own, but they were completely engaged throughout. Every class was disappointed when the bell rang because they wanted to finish the movie. Even though this is a movie, it has some great quotes about writing and the struggle of what it means to write something truly great. I truly wish I could read some of William Forrester's writings, especially his two books.