Ebony's Story - Reach For The Stars

Teaching students with low self-expectations and a restricted sense of what life can offer them is a challenge that most teachers confront. Teachers may teach that education is the key to young people determining the course of their own lives and moving towards self-fulfilment, but the message sometimes falls on stony ground.

Visualizing one’s future self is not easy. Young people may take on parental expectations. This may smooth the way temporarily, but some discover later in life that they never wanted to be a business mogul, or a doctor, or whatever the imperative was. Others have little or no vision of their future selves and lives, or despair of achieving their dreams.

Ebony's Story - The 5th Principle of RESPECTisms can help!

The title of Ebony's story, 'Reach For Stars' speaks for itself.  The story is about a young girl who does not think she is good at anything. To compound this fact, her brother is clever and a model student.

This causes her to feel low and useless and that she will never be good at anything. "Why try, when I will fail anyway" is her thought pattern.

Thankfully her brother and parents believe in her and through a town hall competition she discovers not only that she has a real talent, but that if she really tries at something, she will do better than she expected.  A story that will make you and your students cheer at the end, while encouraging all who it read it to 'reach for the stars'.