Pets

This was my first selection ... and the story seemed very simplistic from a teaching perspective.  Yet it does ring true.  You need to make a connection with students... “ they don’t care how much  you know until  they know how much you care.”  A student who has been written off or abused in a class make have a tough shell built up.  Finding a connection in order to penetrate the shell and get the student to learn is key.