This section in the book shows Erin moving from a student teacher to a full time teacher at her school. The ending of her student teaching semester shows her bringing her students to meet Steven Speilberg. She gets her students to write a brief story of their lives and brings these letters to the director. He reads them and is moved by the stories. The following academic year, Erin returns to the school as a freshman english teacher. Though her group of students is as rough around the edges as her former students (if not more so), she begins some of the same approaches to understanding her students on a personal level and again she begins to connect.
In this section , i was proud of manny for being accepted to berkly. That was a tremendous feat and truely a feather in Erin's cap. I felt it was innapropriate for Erin to have her students over for a BBQ. Even though she shares a closeness with her students and they need someone to look to for support, i feel this blurs the lines between professional and personal at too high of a level. I also felt this section was presented in an overly cheary, non-realistic fashion. I would like to believe Erin's account, but the cynic in me remains dominant when encountering Erin's sweeping tails of student reform. I did however like Erin's use of Romeo and Juliet in relation to the lives of her students
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