Topic for 2nd Assignment (Creative Writing)

18. Teacher

     In a 500-word scene, have one character teach another character something that changes the teacher.  But this exercise asks you to go another step beyond the first layer of reality.  It should teach you how to play with more than one level in your fiction.  The teacher learning something from her student is surprising, though not so unusual as you may think.  The audience is moved by Rose’s tragic learning curve in the movie Titanic.  Imagine how much more interesting the film might have been had Jack learned something from what he taught Rose, rather than simply dying handsomely.
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some ideas...
-a prejudiced white teacher in a school of a black neighborhood
-a math teacher and a young math prodigy