In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie Schwartz, the former sociology professor of author Mitch Albom, has ALS.

Students are not going to be engaged if they don’t understand the references, vocabulary, or setting within a book. Why is it important to build students’ background knowledge before diving into Tuesdays with Morrie ?Įngagement, engagement, engagement. We asked Katie to share a bit more about the lesson, her process, and how she uses Newsela to bring relevance to the classroom: Her students rose to the challenge, in large part because she was able to draw relevance, establish background knowledge, and create connections to the book through other literary works. What started with blank stares from 24 fifteen-year-olds ended with a engaged discussion about life.

Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.Katie Arney, an English Department Chair from Glens Falls, posed this question to her ELA students to jumpstart her lesson focused on the memoir, by Mitch Albom. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final class: lessons in how to live. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.įor Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Now-twelve million copies later-in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie's life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. It's been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world.

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