{"id":10005,"date":"2025-05-30T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2025-05-30T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:53:14","slug":"conversing-with-7th-grade-students-of-jl-simpson-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/conversing-with-7th-grade-students-of-jl-simpson-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversing with 7th grade students of JL Simpson MS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/winterkillkids-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/winterkillkids-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/winterkillkids-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day1a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day1a-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day1a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/day2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Met JL Simpson MS&#8217;s fantastic 7th grade students (11 classes!) and their educators via google meets this morning and yesterday morning. Most were familiar with Winterkill, Enough and Making Bombs for Hitler. I spoke of my own struggles with reading when I was a kid and how failing 4th grade and how that shaped me as a writer. The students&#8217; questions demonstrated a lot of empathy and awareness of world events. Here are some of my fave pics. Thank you, Jennifer Maulfair for organizing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Maulfair passed on this feedback from the sessions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The reason why I am giving the presentation\u00a0a 5 star review is because when she was explaining all the things that had happened to her I could just imagine how much she went through, and I was really into it.&#8221; JL Simpson, 7th Grade student, Leesburg, VA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was interesting to hear about Ms. Skrypuch&#8217;s early life and all of her challenges as a child. She also did a great job of answering complicated questions in a simple way.&#8221; JL Simpson, 7th Grade student, Leesburg, VA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met JL Simpson MS&#8217;s fantastic 7th grade students (11 classes!) and their educators via google meets this morning and yesterday morning. Most were familiar with Winterkill, Enough and Making Bombs for Hitler. I spoke of my own struggles with reading when I was a kid and how failing 4th grade and how that shaped me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/conversing-with-7th-grade-students-of-jl-simpson-ms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conversing with 7th grade students of JL Simpson MS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[956,369,861,214,475,609],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-7th-grade","tag-enough","tag-jl-simpson-middle-school","tag-making-bombs-for-hitler","tag-virtual-visits","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10009,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}