Wilhelm Chapter 1 & 2

            The Wilhelm chapters can be summed in a short, simple, and to-the-point sentence “This is how to teach.”  But the actual work to getting to the point of “This is how to teach” is far from short, simple, or to-the-point.  Countless times, Wilhelm makes reference that teaching is a step-by-step learning that educators must first immerse themselves in.

Literary Profile

            Commute in the city had always been bogged down by heavy traffic, lack of blinker users, and the inability of most people (driver and pedestrians alike) to follow signal patterns.  It came as no surprise that accidents occurred.  Pedestrians ran the risk of being clustered together on slow moving sidewalks, and times they even risked the chance of being hit by approaching vehicles.  Drivers were no exception to this; they were usually piled upon each other in traffic jams, and in rare occasions they were a part of accidents and collisions.  When I was a child I would go along with my mother to the Providence market place as she shopped.  I was the miniature shopping cart that carried everything while she went from shop to shop, from stall to stall, gathering foods and merchandise for the week.  That day she had decided to visit a market in Cranston.  I remember it well because of our drive back home.  Forever embedded in my mind is the scene of the man clad in yellow who hopped across car rooftops and landed beside ours window.