Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: Creative and energetic, Mr. [Karl] Savage

sought and often found the hidden passages to teenagers' passions by trying everything from performing excerpts from plays and poems, to staging competitive haiku slams between classes, to simply giving a student praise for a budding talent.

"We studied more than just the basic novel. We studied advertisements, short stories, essays, and perhaps my favorite, video poems," senior Carl Roberts said in an e-mail to the Savage family after his death.

from The Washington Post: Karl Savage, English teacher, Walter Johnson High

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