\u201cBang, Bang, Bang!\u201d, goes the sound of the alarm.\u00a0 A direct quote from Chyna Randall\u2019s memoir.\u00a0 Chyna is a ninth grader at Urban Science Academy in Boston Massachusetts.\u00a0 Her memoir is an essay about the resolution of one the oldest struggles known to any young student on the planet.\u00a0 Going to a new school.\u00a0 \u00a0Her colorfully descriptive and extremely real memoir was entitled, \u201cGrowing Up!!!\u201d\u00a0 Despite the readers doubt the conflict is resolved in one day.\u00a0 The story ends with this sentence:\u00a0 I love high school.<\/i><\/p>\n
A sample essay given to students by teachers that was taken from a 9th<\/sup> grade student last year describes a reunification with a brother he never met before<\/i>:<\/p>\n When I seen him I seen eyes of pain and sadness but also happiness.\u00a0 I know he wanted to see me as much as I wanted to see him.\u00a0 I ran out of words. I didn\u2019t know what to say.\u00a0 Also when I hugged him I didn\u2019t know if I should let go.\u00a0 I was scared if I was to let him go I\u2019ll never see him again and I cried non-stop.\u00a0 My brother also did\u2026.<\/i><\/p>\n That inspired a 9th<\/sup> grader Rodney Cooper to write a story about meeting his father on his birthday after not seeing him for 3 years.\u00a0 In this memoir the conflict is not quite resolved but the roots of reconciliation are planted\u2026<\/p>\n My five goals in life: To go to college, to be a good person for my sister and brother too, to help others, to always be able to be there for my family, and to always challenge and push myself to be more than I can<\/i> be<\/i>\u2026. Came from another incredibly powerful, well constructed, inspirationally written memoir that was given as a sample by teachers and written by a USA 9th<\/sup> grader from 2013.\u00a0 Conflicts resolved:\u00a0 substance, love and integrity, triumph materialism and a consumer culture that promotes it.<\/p>\n This memoir project created and implemented by the 9th<\/sup> grade Humanities Team at Urban Science Academy (a Boston Public High School) was in full swing this early spring.\u00a0 It contained so many memoirs in which students described in depth description of a resolution of a personal, familiar, or societal issue.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston.\u00a0 It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and\/or domestic) policies. The students and teachers of Urban Science Academy, as well as the citizens of Boston are no different.<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Daniel Horgan is former student of Johan Galtung and Dietrich Fisher at the European Peace University where he earned a graduate degree in Conflict Transformation.\u00a0 He has worked three years in international human rights and is currently a ninth grade study skills teacher at Urban Science Academy in Boston Massachusetts.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That\u2019s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston. It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and\/or domestic) policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}