The Hopeful Letter

A couple of weeks ago I assigned my students a letter from a WWI solider or nurse. They were to include many details about what they would have experienced on the front and in the trenches. We did many activities to show what they would have tasted, smelled, heard and seen. The letter was to be creative and informative. In one of the letters the student was a nurse and she described everything perfectly. She took on the role of her character to a tee. At the end of the letter her nurse describes to her parents how she led a dying solider to Christ. It was beautiful and I cried. It was just touching to see a teenager include that in a school assignment. It gave me great hope for the generation I am working with. Then in fourth period they had a farting contest. So I had to read her letter again.