How one class grew from the roots of reading and writing to an urban garden that shapes our thinking about food, community and the journey from the field to the table.



In this class, students are encouraged to reflect and blog about what resonates with them during the work we approach each week. Once a week, usually later in the week, my students submit entries, we go over them and see what will get posted. ~Mary Ann D'Urso, Instructor




Student Reflections 1/22/2010



Danielle Maholick


Yolisse Carattini, who works in the Development Office for the York Street Project, came into our class and spoke about how the school runs on donations and also about Kenmare/York Street Project's sponsors. I always thought Kenmare was a school funded by the Board of Education. My self-esteem boosted sky high because people who don't have any sense of who we are, are generous enough to donate their time and money so that me and my classmates can pursue our education.


Another thing that started drawing me into the class are these blogs. Every week we are going to be responsible to write a blog which is interesting and also much better than doing Mary Ann's essays (LOL). I think blogging is a great and more fun way to express yourself and have discussions. Maybe I think so because I'm a big Facebooker. However, I am no longer nervous about this class. I am more eager to see what's in store for us and can't wait to get into the interviewing part. Can't wait to start.




Samantha Sylvester


Our Edible English class with Mary Ann D'Urso has proven to be interesting thus far. Today, we learned from Yolisse Carattini, a Development Associate at York Street, that we would be blogging for our school. I was thrilled when she told us this because when I was at a former school, we used to write a newsletter. I liked the fact that I could be the voice of an entire student body by just letting everybody know what was going on and about upcoming events.

We also learned that we will be doing tons of reading, writing, interviews and multimedia projects. This should be a learning experience like no other. I am willing to take the ride because I know without the abundance of work that we are going to have, I don't think I would be ready for what I'm going to be asked to do in college. In this Edible English/Interview Project class, we are working with multimedia equipment which is used regularly by musicians and journalists. I'm thrilled to start working with our Eddies (Edirol R-09HR), our hand-held mics and MacBook Pros.

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