Grief and growth take center stage in The Third Mushroom, a middle-grade novel by the talented Jennifer L. Holm that serves as a follow-up to The Fourteenth Goldfish, a book I shared with my first group of sixth graders.
My essay, Turning the Page: Grief and Growth in Sixth Grade, is about how I got my second batch of students to look at loss head-on, their keen observations and questions, and how my personal experience with grief shaped our classroom culture.
I consider the piece my own follow-up of sorts: another year of teaching, another year of loss, and another year of finding my way through both of those things.
Oh Reader Magazine published the essay in Issue #8. You can view the article here.
Oh Reader is the right home for this piece and I’m grateful a Burlington Writers Workshop participant shared the resource with me.
