Journalism

Lauren had an English assignment to plan/write a newspaper article on an item in the news. She was her usual harrumphy self as she tried to find something in the work that would engage her, starting by looking for a story. We were stuck about what to suggest, coming up with obvious things like the London Marathon, but nothing we could come up with caught her interest. Eventually she went upstairs for an hour and came down to tell us that she’d finished her homework, having done an article on the recently deceased Jack Ashley, a former MP noted among other things for being deaf. I sometimes think she’s even smarter than I give her credit for, which is a lot.