Student Reflections 1/25/10

Samantha Sylvester


We started a new ritual in our class. It is a Monday morning tea tradition where someone in class prepares a cup of tea for everybody while the rest of the class settles in to the week with a piece of writing to read for the first half hour of class. This week we read a food essay by Scott Peacock called, "The Art of the Biscuit." This essay was very appealing to me because I just always thought of a biscuit as being the Pillsbury kind, but I was wrong. Now I know the importance of making them from scratch and exactly how to do it step-by-step. Reading this essay makes you think of how scrumptious a biscuit should taste. The ritual was a new experience. I can tell you this: It did help me wake up, clear my mind and start with a completely new attitude for the week instead of the usual lazy Monday I would have probably had. Tea and Moday mornings have changed forever.

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Tiffany Taylor

I really enjoyed my Edible English class. My teacher Mary Ann said we were going to have a ritual and we would be drinking tea. I was surprised because in Mary Ann's class last term, we often came in and wrote for the first 10 minutes. The idea of tea in the morning was great.

As we had our ritual, we also quietly read about biscuits and how this guy made them from scratch. The things he put in, like baking powder, for example, were also made from scratch. It made me think about how making food from scratch is more natural than buying box foods like biscuit mix.

I'll look forward to Monday mornings, sitting back, crossing my legs, having a cup of hot tea and reading another essay.

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.