Dead Man Talking, by Alden Blodget
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This collection of short talks speaks to high school and college students, their parents and teachers about success, school, college, friendship, boredom, bigotry, cheating, bulimia, effort, excellence, living a meaningful life, and many more ideas. In each of these talks, the goal is to say something that might penetrate the usual haze of boredom that hangs over school assemblies. The adults expect optimistic clichés about hard work and success. The kids expect tedium; some of them hope to doze, some to weep with giddy suppressed laughter exchanging whispered witticisms with their friends. Everyone prays for brevity. As a result, the talks are always pushing the envelope, trying to grab the students' attention by addressing issues that are real for them, many of which are also difficult or depressing, and yet finding some sort of path back to an optimism suitable to the occasion. To get their attention, the speeches often reveal personal adolescent mistakes and are funny, revealing the speaker to be human, instead of a distant, holier-than-thou preacher. The ideas in these talks remain relevant and important for students and parents to consider. Issues of identity, morality, relationships, choices and what young people will make of the huge investment of time and money they and their parents make in schools need conscious, thoughtful consideration now. Otherwise, the result is likely to be regret. Each talk lasted only about 15 minutes, so each is short and can act as a point of departure for solo reflection or conversation. And, although they are organized chronologically, they can be read in any order.
Dead Man Talking, by Alden Blodget - Amazon Sales Rank: #1132617 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-26
- Released on: 2015-10-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
Dead Man Talking, by Alden Blodget Review "Blodget delivers his wisdom--earned during a long career focused on adolescent learning--with honesty and humor. Suitable for both parents and students, these short talks on difficult and necessary topics in the lives of teenagers enlighten, educate and entertain. They are unforgettable and offer opportunities for engaging conversations." -- Tracy Winn, author of MRS. SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, Random House "This collection offers fifty-two perfectly-constructed speeches that display muscular, economical prose, well-developed arguments, and profound questions about morality. Written specifically for high school students, they could function effectively in any writing or public speaking class both as models and as inspiration for further discussion. Blodget uses his own experiences and mistakes as anecdotal evidence for his point-of-view--he doesn't lecture--and his simultaneously idealistic and pessimistic voice resonates with adolescents and with the adults who teach them." -- Steve Peisch, Hamilton-Wenham High School "Blodget's speeches were always filled with a sense of real purpose and meaning that drew us students in. His speeches, steeped in the notions of academic excellence and obtaining a full educational experience, were engaging, thought-provoking, honest, and true. They compelled us to carefully listen to each point, as we all knew that we were hearing words that would help us in school and beyond. Twenty-plus years later, as a professional and business owner, those memorable speeches still have meaning to me and remain relevant and important for students today." -- Leon Bordelon, Lawrence Academy alum ('96), founding director of The Picardy Group (Chicago)
About the Author Alden Blodget is a dead white male, who has nevertheless managed to retain the affection of his wife and two adult daughters. Retired now, he lives with his wife on the Essex River in Massachusetts and tries his best to keep his mouth shut. He was a teacher and administrator for 38 years. He taught theatre and English, created and chaired the arts department at Taft School (Connecticut), chaired the arts department at Packer Collegiate Institute (New York), was assistant head of school for 18 years at Lawrence Academy (Massachusetts) and was a trustee at the Long Trail School (Vermont). In 2000, he began working with Mary Helen Immordino-Yang (neuroscientist at the University of Southern California) studying some of the research into how people learn and offering workshops for educators to discuss the implications of this research for school design and classroom practices. He helped create and was lead writer for Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections, a course aimed at teachers and funded by the Annenberg Foundation, on whose Web site it is available. He has published many articles about education and the book Learning, Schooling and the Brain: New Research vs. Old Assumptions. He worked as a guardian ad litem in the Rutland (Vermont) family and criminal courts, representing abused and delinquent children and helping adults declared incompetent to stand trial.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Recommended for Young Adults By Amazon Customer Having heard for years about Alden Blodget’s popular “Assembly Talks” at Lawrence Academy, I was eager to read his essays and share them with my young adult children. They did not disappoint. Dead Man Talking is Blodget’s collection of 52 talks delivered over 15 years to a restless assemblage of high school students whose attention could be fleeting. In his direct and entertaining discussions of a myriad of difficult topics, Blodget reaches across the generational divide and compels his students to reflect on the choices they make every day. In these essays, Blodget wrestles with the fundamental challenges of being a young person, a student, a moral being, a friend, a thinker.Blodget brings to each essay his passion for – and sometimes frustration with – the task of inviting young people to care, strive and become complete human beings. His is the voice of a committed educator seeking to reach every student, not just the ones in the front row. What he delivers are powerful, provocative and deeply personal discussions of the many obstacles young people face on the road to realizing their full potential.Perhaps the most compelling endorsement that I can give for Dead Man Talking is this: a few days after receiving this book for Christmas, my 22 year old daughter was observed reading it for three uninterrupted hours. Writing as a parent and as a child and adolescent psychotherapist, I recommend this book for the young adults in your life.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Straight talk By Amazon Customer Wow, this book of short speeches is full of no nonsense wisdom and advice for teenage students and teachers alike. Having retired from 43 years of teaching, I found Blodget's messages compellingly written and pragmatically delivered in a way that any of us who are not asleep can understand. It is not that I agree with all of Blodget's sentiments, but he makes his reasoning so clear that I can firmly believe in his belief in their veracity. As an educator , Blodget sounds like a refreshing voice that reminds us of basic human values in a world in which truth is as momentary and fleeting as television advertisements. Blodget does this by combining his own adolescent recollections with today's observations as a dean of students. What comes off the pages more than anything else is that he is a gifted educator using tough love and high reasoning to instill basic values of empathy and compassion.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I found his writing excellent. It was direct By Doctor Strong For those of you who are in education, you may find this collection of essays an eye-opener. I found his writing excellent. It was direct, on-target, solidly written in a style which some may find perhaps a bit too forceful for his audience, but there is no question that he provides his readers (and formerly his listeners) with ideas laced with excellent evidence and quotations. Mr. Blodget may be somewhat cynical, but he poses strong arguments and draws upon a myriad of sources. For those of us who teach, his comments are refreshing and true; for those of us who are students, well, we need to hear this, or in this case to read and to reflect. And he manages to include some humorous and self-deprecating remarks, which lighten the message. A good read, it cannot help but to make one ponder what he says.
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