I'm glad that O'Connor thought his students' writings turned out so successfully. I really liked what he said about relating writing to political and social importance. It's important to teach your students that their writing does matter, so that they are still motivated to continue writing. And in actuality, many move on to write things that actually do matter in the world. Through writing, we can show the reader other perspectives that they may not have thought about before and hopefully get the reader to understand these perspectives. Through understanding, we can create a safer world for future generations because there will be less fighting and arguments over differing opinions and views.
Another thing I liked in the reading was how O'Connor read students' work to his classes in order to make them motivated to make their writing better. Sometimes all a student wants is to be better than someone else, and sometimes they just want to be better than themselves. A challenge could be all a student needs to get started in writing. Reading other students' writing also shows the classes what mistakes were made, and how to fix them. Often, an example is needed in order for students to really understand how to fix a problem.
A good thing about this project was that there were so many characters involved with the story. The amount of characters made it so that students had a variety of choices of what to write about. It leads to more interesting writing from students because O'Connor didn't have to read the same thing over and over.
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