{"id":1228,"date":"2017-11-21T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:32:12","slug":"boushall-week-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/2017\/11\/21\/boushall-week-7-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Boushall Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Higher Achievement hosted a potluck for the students and their families so we didn&#8217;t get to work with the kids, but I have been reflecting about the experience over the past week. I had low expectations for how excited they would be about it from the beginning, but I have been blown away by how enthusiastic the kids always seem to be when we come. Especially since we come at the end of a very long day, the kids have been awesome about still being energetic and still giving us their attention.<\/p>\n<p>I think of how much they&#8217;ve improved too. At the beginning, they constantly stumbled over Shakespeare&#8217;s language, but now, they have a much better grasp on it. They may not be perfect, but they&#8217;ve impressed me with how far they&#8217;ve come. We have a Macbeth who speaks his lines in a British accent and many different witch voices, and I&#8217;m excited to try to get them to act a little more in the next couple weeks before the performance so when the night comes, they can impress everyone else just as they&#8217;ve impressed me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Higher Achievement hosted a potluck for the students and their families so we didn&#8217;t get to work with the kids, but I have been reflecting about the experience over the past week. I had low expectations for how excited they would be about it from the beginning, but I have been blown away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}