changchien.lily - From Delta to Hill Country

I joined the Mississippi Teacher Corps in May 2005 and will finish this May 2007. For my first year in the program, I was placed in the Delta in Hollandale, but for my second year, I chose to teach in Potts Camp, in Mississippi's hill country. By mere coincidence, my two schools played each other for the 2A north state girls basketball title. It was an exciting, nerve-racking game both on the court and in my emotions, for my loyalties were torn.

Simmons (blue & white) play Potts Camp (red) at Hollandale

This portfolio represents two years of incredibly hard work, of both good experiences and experiences that were good for me. I am proud of it. Please, browse and enjoy.

"Our state will move only under the impact of an educated citizenry -- trained not only to hold a job but to live a life -- trained not only to do but to think. The undeniable fact is that Mississippi can never move forward as far or as fast as it should as long as we still have many of our people who do not have an education adequate to match their needs as workers and as citizens. Even with a comparatively good education, it is all most of us can do to keep up with the pace of life as it is lived today. It is next to impossible for those without the floor of at least a high school education to compete on anything like satisfactory terms.... Let us make sure that we educate for more than the reading of a gauge of the turning of a switch. We also need men and women who understand the significance of their relationship to their communities, their state and their nation and their loyalties to all."

-- Governor Winter, speech at Jaycees DSA Banquet, Vicksburg, 1/18/1965

From Delta to Hill Country

My Mississippi Teacher Corps Portfolio

Lily Chang-Chien

Grade 18

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