The following is not a blog post assignment, but something I started with for paper 2 before getting off track about half way through. I liked it anyway and it's been sitting around.

One of my all time favorite teachers is a man named Larry Kerr. He was a history teacher when I was in high school. Mr. Kerr started when I was in ninth grade, and we were his first class, and he left when we were in eleventh grade as his last. Before his short time at our school he had never been a teacher and had only recently become qualified to teach. He was one of the best teachers I've had, at least at teaching history, because despite being the only teacher in the school who only used lectures as a teaching method he managed to keep everyone thoroughly interested. Of course the circumstances that allowed him to keep us captivated aren't exactly the most replicable as it relied rather heavily on his personal experiences. When he'd talk of a battle he'd give us an explanation of what it was like to be in it, and it turned out he had. At one point he told us to take a section of a textbook with a grain of salt because it wasn't accurate; he knew because the person who made the decision outlined in the book told Mr. Kerr other otherwise, and we found a more modern book that explained what he was talking about. It shouldn't be expected of all teachers to go out and receive a BAFTA before teaching an intro to cinematography or anything similar, but at the same time it was a bit of real world experience, or more likely a bit of real care and interest mixed with the idea of depth and complexity that made such a dry and linear subject as history become quite engaging.