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Teacher Bob Diedrich hugs Angelica Torres as she cries about the poem she wrote in his Advanced Placement literature class at Round Lake High School.
Love shown through words
Round Lake High AP literature teacher makes sure students know he cares
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By Bob Susnjara
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Round Lake High School
teacher Bob Diedrich’s passion for his job filled his classroom just before winter break.
Students in Diedrich’s
Advanced Placement literature class were asked to
read for everyone the Shakespearean sonnets they were
directed to compose early in
the school year. The teenagers wrote the sonnets about
themselves.
Diedrich, 46, of McHenry
became emotional when he
Watch as Round Lake High School English teacher Bob Diedrich
talks about how skills of thinking, reading and writing are important for his students. Watch the video online at dailyherald.com.
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told the students why he had
them write such personal
sonnets.
“The purpose behind why I
asked you to do this is to give
these (sonnets) to your parents as gifts,” he said. “Give
them to your parents as gifts.
The most beautiful thing you
Extra credit
can give to another person is
love shown through words.
You know what love looks
like in this class. Sometimes,
it is the truth. And the truth is,
sometimes it’s hard to share
with people.”
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G I L B E R T R . B O U C H E R I I / gb o u cher @d a ilyher a ld . co m
Teacher Bob Diedrich works with students on a paper about
Shakespeare sonnets as he teaches an Advanced Placement
literature class at Round Lake High School.
• Pick up students
when they fall. For
example, help show
them — not just tell
them — how to write a
better essay.
• Teach students how
to critically think, not
just content. It spans
disciplines, whether
that’s math, science
or social studies.
Questions on how and
why are what should
be asked of the pupils.
Students don’t grow by
memorizing facts.
• Don’t be afraid to ask
students to do what
appears impossible.
Also, don’t tell students
what they cannot do.
Let them show you
what they can do and
they will show you the
world.
Curriculum
vitae
Name: Bob Diedrich
Town: McHenry
Job: English honors
and Advanced Placement literature and
composition teacher
at Round Lake High
School
Education: Bachelor’s
degree from Northern
Illinois University in
DeKalb; master’s from
Aurora University.
Work experience:
Full-time Round Lake
High instructor since
2006; worked for 13
years as a writer and
editor at the Northwest
Herald newspaper in
Crystal Lake
Celebrating more top English teachers
Brian Turnbaugh — Community High School, West Chicago
Need to know: Teaches Global Studies, AP Language and
Composition, and senior electives at Community High
School in West Chicago. This is
his 16th year as a teacher, with
14 at West Chicago after starting his career at Mount Carmel.
Q. How do you give your students the confidence to reveal
some of their inner thoughts in
their writing and storytelling?
A. Discussions of literature
and art scratch the itches we
have about so many unresolved
questions of our humanity that
both excite and haunt us. The
students know that we are piecing these interpretations all
together, and I think this creates an environment where students can share their ideas with
confidence. I don’t pretend to
have the answers, but I help
guide the students to ask the
questions to arrive at the connections themselves.
The transfer to successful
writing hinges on thoughtful
analysis of the craft from professional models. Be it food
reviews of Pete Wells, stern editorials, or the imagery of Fitzgerald, I use the experience of
unpacking the craft of these
texts as if we are apprentices
in writing. From these models,
students lean on the structure,
syntax and voice so they can
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frame their original thoughts,
and the gains in technique and
confidence are immediate.
Q. How has texting and social
media changed the way students read and write, and how
does it affect your approach
to teaching English and
composition?
A. Language is like fire in so
many ways. If properly handled, it can illuminate and provide necessary clarity. Yet, we
know that fire can both burn
and create smoke to blur our
perceptions. The ubiquity of all
media demands that we equip
students with tools to think critically about their role as an audience to these messages. The
good news is that they already
understand this but need more
awareness of their power in this
communication. Let’s imagine a student is on Snapchat,
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Now the student has four
distinct audiences that require
nuanced expressions. The differences may be imperceptible to adults, but they exist. We
need to make students aware
of the similar process of their
B R I A N H I L L / bh i l l @ d a ilyher a ld . co m
Composition teacher Brian Turnbaugh helps teens appreciate
writing structures, which helps students share ideas within the
safety of those structures.
curation of these messages
from texting/social media audiences to the choices we make
in academic and persuasive
writing. As they become more
aware of the dynamics between
writer/audience, their confidence expands in both roles.
Q. How do you explain the
connection between being a
good reader and being a good
writer to your students?
A. I’ll answer this with
another metaphor (I can’t stop
myself. It’s what I do). This relationship between reading and
writing is no different from the
development of a master chef.
How can a chef prepare a meal
without savoring the ingredients that they serve? A pinch
of salt can flavor only so much
and we need to look at how
reading expands the horizons
of ideas, sentence variety, and
word choice. Our philosophy
is to expose students to many
genres, styles of argument, and
other modes of expression.
When it comes time for them to
write, students will know how
to pair their ideas to their audience’s taste.
Q. When it comes to your
own reading, what’s your guilty
pleasure?
A. I was reluctant to use Twitter at first, but now I can’t live
B R I A N H I L L / bhill@d a ilyher a ld . co m
Brian Turnbaugh teaches Advanced Placement Language and
Composition at Community High School in West Chicago. He
says teens’ use of social media can help them understand
writing for different audiences.
without it. Despite its potential distraction and escape, I
consistently stumble across
smart, creative and challenging ideas that enrich me professionally and personally. I follow @brainpickings (also a Web
page) for the best inspiration
and celebration of art and the
human condition.
I am juggling between reading the gritty crime fiction of
Don Winslow’s “The Power
of the Dog” and revisiting
mind-bending sci-fi of Philip K.
Dick.
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Whitnie Del Toro — Currier Elementary School
Need to know: Del Toro is the
GATE specialist for gifted and
talented education at Currier
Elementary in West Chicago. She’s in her ninth year of
teaching, including five in Indiana before coming to West
Chicago. She’s in her third
year teaching at Currier.
Q. What’s the best part
of being an elementary
schoolteacher?
A. The best part is the students. We get them at such
a young age, they are ready
and willing to learn anything
you throw at them. School is
such an exciting experience
for them and they are sponges
waiting to soak it all up.
As an elementary teacher, I
have the ability to help shape
their lives in a positive way. I
hope to instill a love of learning to all my students. I want
them to learn the power of
hard work and dedication, but
also learn how to overcome
challenges.
I love seeing their faces each
morning, giving/getting big
hugs throughout the day and
being told how much they
love school. I like to think that
I have a little something to do
with that, and it makes me feel
good that these students will
remember me and remember
their school year in a positive
light.
Q. As a gifted specialist,
what’s the biggest challenge
you face in your classroom
and how do you address it?
A. My biggest challenge as
the gifted specialist is seeing several different groups
of students each day. I only
B E V H O R N E / bh or n e @ dai l y h e r al d.
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Whitnie Del Toro, the gifted
education specialist at Currier
Elementary School in West
Chicago, loves when students
have an “aha!” moment.
“Their eyes open wide and
they smile as they say, ‘I get it
now!’ It truly is that animated
at times.”
see them for a short period
of time, so building a rapport
with them and making connections with them is harder
to do when I only see them for
part of the day.
Making connections and
having those relationships
with students is what helped
make me successful in the
classroom. Building a community with students who
come from different classrooms was a challenge at
first because I am a different
teacher with different norms
and different expectations.
However, we took the time
to get to know each other,
build trust and understanding and come together as a
B E V H O R N E / b ho r n e@d a ilyher a ld . co m
Whitnie Del Toro helps Berenice Carmona, left, and Christopher Tinajero-Ferreira as she teaches
students about ancient Egypt during a third-grade reading enrichment class at Currier Elementary School in West Chicago.
community of learners so we
could work together successfully. Although this took time,
it was time well spent; I know
my students feel safe and feel
like they are an important part
of our community of learners.
Q. Describe what it’s like
when your students have that
“aha!” moment and what it
means to them — and you.
A. When a student has an
“aha!” moment, you can literally see everything sort of
“click” in their brains. Their
eyes open wide and they smile
as they say, “I get it now!” It
truly is that animated at times.
Sometimes those moments
take a while to come, but
once that connection takes
place, I can take a nice, deep
breath (one that I hadn’t realized I was holding until that
moment) and know that all
the different lessons and activities have paid off.
Once that moment hits
them, they begin making all
these connections and it is as
if you can physically see the
synapses in their brains firing
as they connect one concept
to another and make meaning
from it.
Q. What’s the best gift you’ve
ever received, inside or outside the classroom?
A. Truly the best gift I have
received (and continue to
receive) is the connection I
share with my students, both
past and present. Last year,
I received a letter in the mail
from a former third-grader I
had in Indiana. She told me all
about the things she learned
with me and how it was helping her in middle school now.
I made a positive, lasting
impression on that child and
no one can ever give me a gift
greater than that.
Anthony Zoubek — Bartlett High School
By Abby Scalf
Daily Herald correspondent
Anthony Zoubek, speech
and drama coach at Bartlett
High School, started teaching in 2005. He won a Kane
County Distinguished Educator Award in 2010 and, in
2011, was awarded Illinois’
Coach of the Year for Speech
and Forensics.
That same year, he earned
the Illinois Communication and Theatre Association’s Award for Outstanding
Young Teacher of the Year.
He’s guided eight students
to the IHSA State Championship in speech and, with
him as coach, Bartlett High
School won the Upstate-8
Conference Title for Speech.
No other school in Elgin Area
School District U-46 has ever
won conference.
Q. How do you give your
students the confidence to
reveal some of their inner
thoughts in their writing and
storytelling?
A. Instilling students with
confidence so as they may
freely write and speak is
absolutely essential. So, from
day one, I establish a classroom environment founded
on mutual respect and rapport. Within those parameters, I try to be a model
writer, speaker and storyteller. Over the course of the
semester, in speeches as well
as term papers, I repeat my
mantra, “A picture can paint
a thousand words. Using a
thousand words, paint me a
picture.”
Q. How has texting and
social media changed the
way students read and write,
and how does it affect your
approach to teaching English
and composition?
A. When students participate in independent reading and ably pull up a wealth
of eBooks on their iPhones,
I’m thankful such technology exists. It widens students’ access to diverse literature and ideas. When
students use their smartphones to look up vocabulary words or responsibly
keep watch over their online
grades, I am equally appreciative. But when it comes to
cellphone misuse — when
texting jargon works its way
into papers, or when a phone
buzzes on vibrate during a
student’s speech — there are
only so many times you can
ask that the phones be put
away. So it’s a double-edged
sword.
Q. How do you explain the
connection between being a
good reader and being a good
writer to your students?
A. You cannot write or
speak with clarity unless
B O B C H W E D Y K / b chwed yk@d a ilyher a ld . co m
Bartlett High School speech, English and drama teacher Anthony Zoubek tells his students, “A
picture can paint a thousand words. Using a thousand words, paint me a picture.”
you’re able to read and listen.
You cannot be a good writer
or speaker unless you are an
avid reader and close listener.
“Finding your voice” means
exploring the voices of skilled
wordsmiths. Furthermore, we
don’t get better at anything
unless we practice it. Literacy,
whether written or spoken, is
no different.
Q. When it comes to reading, what’s your guilty
pleasure?
A. I’m as much a movie
geek as I am a lover of literature. The famous film
critic Pauline Kael once said
something along the lines
of, “If we cannot appreciate great trash” we have very
little reason to be interested
in great art. On my nightstand sits the new book by
world-renowned
author
John Irving, two books by
acclaimed author Thomas
Pynchon, Stephen King’s “It,”
and “The Disaster Artist,” a
hilarious book chronicling
the production of the worst
movie ever made.
Kimberly Pearlman — Batavia High School
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years as a teacher, 13 have
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Q. How do you give your
students the confidence to
reveal some of their inner
thoughts in their writing and
storytelling?
A. It’s about instilling the
trust that they can become
insightful, effective and ethical communicators — they
have a voice and their message deserves to be heard. It’s
also about creating an environment of trust and risk in
the classroom. Growth comes
through risks, and trust is created through sharing ideas.
Q. How has texting and
social media changed the
way students read and
write and how does it affect
your approach to teaching
English?
A. They live in a world
where messages exist in fastpaced sound bites conveyed
on social media with a level of
permanence and reach students don’t always consider.
The key is teaching them to
think about how audience
and mode of writing changes
due to the purpose of the
message.
Q. How do you explain the
connection between being a
good reader and being a good
writer to your students?
A. The more you read —
the more varied genres, messages, authors — the more
extensive your understanding and appreciation of writing. It’s about exposure to
concepts, cultures and contexts as a means to developing ideas and expanding your
impact on the audience.
Q. When it comes to reading, what’s your guilty
pleasure?
A. I love anything by Hemingway and Fitzgerald. I know
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Kimberly Pearlman. who teaches English and speech at Batavia
High School, wants her students to see they can become both
effective and insightful communicators.
they are complete opposites
in styles, but I love the contrast and the period. More
recently, I have immersed
myself in nonfiction and
have discovered a real love
for historical nonfiction and
memoirs.
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DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS
Your day in the stars
MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016
BUCKETS BY GREG CRAVENS
PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE
It is much easier
on paper
Beryl Pfizer, a writer and producer, said, “I write
down everything I want to remember. That way,
instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.”
I can relate to that. However, when you are presented with a bridge problem on a piece of paper,
it is usually easier to find the right answer than it
would have been at the table with no warning bell
ringing. That applies to this deal, which occurred
during last year’s world championships in Sanya,
China.
West opened two diamonds to show a weak
two-bid in either major. East inquired with two
no-trump and learned that his partner had a minimum with hearts. Then East leapt straight into six
hearts without even bothering to use Roman Key
Card Blackwood.
If you were South, you would have probably
started wondering what to lead against six hearts.
But not Geir Helgemo, a Norwegian who plays
for Monaco. He stopped to analyze the auction.
Clearly his partner, Tor Helness, was void in
hearts. Also, East had a void somewhere; otherwise, he would have checked on key cards. East
presumably had a long, solid diamond suit. If so,
six hearts was probably making, but six spades
would be a cheap sacrifice — and might even be
a make!
So Helgemo overcalled six spades. East doubled, of course, and the contract went an unlucky
down one; if North had held the club 10, it would
have coasted home. And six hearts by East — but
not by West after a diamond lead — was laydown.
MONTY BY JIM MEDDICK
Take a fresh look at an old project. With a couple of updates, you
can find the success you were denied in the past. Concentrate on
bringing any pending financial, legal or medical issues to a close.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) If
19) Travel plans can be made
you look for something unique
with confidence. Mixing busito do, you will open up a winness with pleasure will enable
dow of opportunity that can
you to appease both personal
lead to a better position, new
and professional partners. Get
friendship or improved living
the most mileage out of your
arrangements.
money by cutting unnecessary
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A
overhead.
change will do you good. Go
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
with friends to a place that
Put your priorities in order. One offers relaxation and indulof your ideas will capture atten- gence. Invite someone you
tion. Someone’s comments will love along in order to bring you
cause emotional stress. Focus
closer together.
on personal achievement, not
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
on what others do or say.
You’ll have a productive day if
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
you get out of the house. Make
Don’t leave anything to chance networking, meetings and
or give in to manipulative tacinterviews your priority. Don’t
tics. If something doesn’t seem let someone’s negativity stop
right, take a pass. Exhaustion
you from going after your procan be avoided if you are caufessional goals.
tious and health-conscious.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) An
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
observant approach will help
Make education your focus.
you decipher who is there to
Gaining information will help
help or hinder you. Bring about
you outsmart any competition
the changes that show promise
you face. A celebration, vacawith regard to personal relation or commitment will bring
tionships and your emotional
you closer to someone you love. well-being.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
Your ability to handle responMake plans to visit a friend
sibility must not lead to you
or place that makes you feel
taking on the burdens of others. comfortable. Look for creative
Concentrate on your strengths
solutions in order to make a
and your future, not on helping difference.
someone else get ahead.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Per- 21) Stay on top of every aspect
suasive tactics will help you get of a job or responsibility you’ve
your way. Take a relationship to been given. Poor health or
the next level by making plans
a relationship problem will
that will show your loyalty and
develop if you let stress overdedication.
come you.
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5 Hairy humanoid
9 Wood-shaving
tool
12 Milano money,
once
13 You said it!
14 Take to court
15 Grabbing
17 Visualize
18 Have a bite
19 Realty offering
20 Talks wildly
22 Rock’s —
Fighters
23 LII twice
24 Full of
dandelions
27 Got stuck
30 Jazzy — James
31 Firefly holder
32 Geese formation
34 Freight unit
35 Strange
36 Lecherous look
37 Specifically
40 Heart outlet
41 Toward the
stern
42 Masseuse
employer
43 Happy or
Grumpy
46 Queen —
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50 Flair for music
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Kernel holders
— — pretty
sight
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domain
58 “En garde”
weapon
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Failing that
1492 ship
Confound it!
Harden
Boor
Throw off heat
Gymnast’s goal
Actress
— Bergman
Org.
Recital offering
Marks of Zorro
Jade
21 Batting stat
22 Pharm.
watchdog
23 Heavy string
24 Rainy
25 007’s alma
mater
26 Sicilian spouter
27 Godiva’s title
28 Nonstop
29 Bug repellent
31 Shock
33 Epoch
36 Mauna —
38 Nick or scratch
39 Blot out
40 Parroted
42 Taste or hear
43 — ex machina
44 Rouse from
sleep
45 Field
46 Talking pig
47 Strong as — —
48 — — grip!
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PRECIPITATION
Saturday
0.27”
Month to date
0.47”
Normal month to date
0.56”
Year to date
0.47”
Normal year to date
0.56”
TEMPERATURE
High/low
40°/23°
Normal high/low
31°/17°
Record high
60° in 1880
Record low
-20° in 1875
South Bend
21/15
10s
Almanac
Statistics are from Chicago through
Saturday.
Gary
27/15
St. Joseph
23/18
National
0s
Aurora
20/9
Naperville
20/9
Arlington Heights
19/9
Chicago
22/8
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
City
Albany, NY
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
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Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Brownsville
Buffalo
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Charlotte, NC
Cheyenne
Cincinnati
Cleveland
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Villa.
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4 p.m.
8°
-0s
Elgin
18/8
Saugatuck
22/19
Noon
0°
-10s
Gurnee
17/7
8 a.m.
-12°
Stationary front
Woodstock
15/6
An indication of how cold it feels based on
temperature and wind speed.
Warm front
Lake Geneva
12/5
Wind chill
Past 24 hours
1.7”
Month to date
1.7”
Season to date (normal) 17.4” (13.0”)
Last season to date
10.5”
Cold front
Muskegon
23/17
Grand Haven
22/18
Holland
21/16
Milwaukee
16/7
Snow
The cold weather we are
currently experiencing is much
more intense across Northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota. Low
temperatures early Sunday fell to
-22 degrees in International Falls
and to -25 degrees in Ely. Green
Bay will likely fall below zero
degrees this morning for the first
time this winter.
Ice
Temperatures are today’s predicted highs and lows.
Madison
14/7
Cold today with sun followed by increasing clouds; snow late in the
afternoon. Wind SSW 7-14 knots. Seas 3-6 feet. Visibility less than 2
miles at times. Water temperature: 41.
Tune into Phil Schwarz and the ABC 7
Chicago weather team’s forecasts at 5, 6
and 11 a.m. and 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
Showers Rain T-storms Snow Flurries
Metro area temps.
Rockford
20/7
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Teacher: Diedrich wants students to challenge themselves
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Round Lake High School
Principal Donn Mendoza
said it’s not just strong test
scores that make Diedrich effective as an instructor of English honors and
Advanced Placement literature and composition
classes.
Mendoza said Diedrich
has a “passion and commitment he displays daily
relative to improving the
achievement of the students
for whom he is responsible.”
Advanced
Placement
senior Angelica Torres said
there is much to like about
Diedrich. His love for his
students is one reason she
holds him in high regard.
Torres’ classmate, Noemi
Powell, has a similar view of
her instructor.
“Mr. Diedrich is very
passionate about what he
does,” Powell said. “He
genuinely cares about us
as individual writers, and
I think that’s something
that’s really rare to find —
a teacher that really cares
about each student individually. And I think that he
displays that very well.”
G I L B E R T R . B O U C H E R I I / gb o u cher @d a ilyher a ld . co m
Bob Diedrich edits the construction of a Shakespearean sonnet as he instructs his Advanced Placement literature class at Round
Lake High School.
Diedrich did not take
the conventional path to
become a full-time teacher
in 2006.
After graduating with a
bachelor’s degree in journalism
from
Northern
Illinois
University
in
DeKalb, he worked for 13
years at the Northwest Herald newspaper in Crystal Lake. His career at the
paper included writing
about sports and politics, as
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well as community editor.
Diedrich left the newspaper to attend Aurora University, where he received
a master’s degree in education. He began substitute teaching at Round
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Lake High while at Aurora
University.
He said the first few
months of his classes are
difficult for pupils. The
students
don’t
always
understand why Diedrich
demands so much of them,
but it’s because he’s trying
to unlock their critical analysis skills.
“If they have the skills on
how to think and read and
how to write, it doesn’t matter what gets thrown at students,” Diedrich said. “They
can accomplish great feats.
And that’s kind of what the
teaching strategy is.”
Demetria Mackey is one
of the students who wasn’t
thrilled with Diedrich when
she first wound up with him
as an English teacher.
Mackey, an early Class of
2016 graduate, said she initially stormed out of Dietrich’s classroom because
she didn’t understand the
work.
After Mackey had a
respite from Diedrich, he
asked school officials to
assign her to his classroom
again. She then worked to
become a student whose
essay writing helped her
land a scholarship to Tuskegee University in Alabama,
which she chose over the
University of Miami.
“I have a full ride to college because of Mr. Diedrich,” she said.
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