[Northkeep] Gore Demo--This Thursday!

[Kathryn Helstrom]

It is so gratifying to hear that students are captivated by live
performances and demonstrations!  This is the true work of the SCA, to
elighten and encourage others, especially youngsters, to relish the beauty
and wisdom of the past.  I am so grateful to belong to such a giving and
learned company of folks.

Franziska

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jerry Herring
<j.t.herring at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> For a person who loves words to be made speechless is a rare thing. Finding
> the
> words to express how proud I am of my friends and my students feels very
> limiting right now.
>
>
> I spent the first part of the day worrying that my students would 'act out'
> or
> do something embarrassing and worried that they wouldn't 'get it'.
>
>
> But HE Ainar, HL Adalia, Lord William, and Lord Karl were phenomenal.  We
> started about 1 PM in my classroom to show off the artisan side and to
> discuss
> the culture then after 2PM we moved outside so we could be a little louder
> :)  I
> had invited my AP (Honors) Literature students as well as the other English
> teacher's Seniors students (since they'll do Beowulf later this
> year). Throughout the earlier part of the demo other students would wander
> by
> and ask what we were doing and beg to watch (my sophomore students were
> very sad
> that they didn't get to see the whole thing, but there just wasn't room for
> all
> of them in my classroom.) We had students in the desks, leaning against the
> wall, sitting on the floor, and sitting on top of the desks.
>
>
> The students have heard me talk about my 're-enactment' group often and
> have
> seen pictures. But pictures are never the same as being able to see the
> items,
> and hear the way things were crafted, to touch a piece of chain mail and
> realize
> how much work must go in to such a piece, to hear about the way men and
> women
> worked through their day to provide for their families, to have their ears
> resonate with the songs of times they can only read about in history books,
> and
> to interact with people and see what a warrior and a real bard really looks
> like.  Teachers often will talk about 'teach-able moments' when students
> are
> engaged in the lesson. Well I had between 30-50 students who were all
> ENGAGED in
> the lesson.  They asked questions--they talked with people.  They got to
> see
> their teacher get into combat with a person.
>
>
> I can not thank HE Ainar, HL Adalia, Lord William and Lord Karl enough for
> what
> they were able to do for my students yesterday.  Thank you all so much!
>
>
> My students will never forget this experience!
>
> In service,
> Kelandra
> aka Mrs. Herring
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