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Grand Valley ReviewVolume 24 | Issue 1 Article 91-1-2002Like Locusts Eat LeavesSteve MargulisGrand Valley State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gvrThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Grand Valley Review by anauthorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu.Recommended CitationMargulis, Steve (2002) "Like Locusts Eat Leaves," Grand Valley Review: Vol. 24: Iss. 1, Article 9.Available at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gvr/vol24/iss1/9so Steve Margulis Like locusts eat leaves New visitors. When they enter my hospice room, their nostrils clot with fear and their bold purpose betrays an awkward limp. They spill the comfort they bring like Onan's seed. Their chatter could be my radio as its dial is twisted. This room. I have inherited its past. I peel its pain, wrapping it tightly like a phylactery. I listen to its walls whisper Cancer is a thousand thousand tiny teeth that eats lives like locusts eat leaves. Cancer's song. I sing until nurses hush me and I drift into a wasteland in which the corpse of calm is buried. I dream I am in my sovereign youth, at the beach, but no crowds cavort, no summer sun caresses. Lost options. They are a prison I must resist. I had a friend whose company made me whole. His untimely death was a stone I could not chew. To comfort me, he visited, twice, in dreams. Now, years later, I long for his company. I plead with him to come, to call me. If he does not, will I have the courage to wait? Jtephen T. c:Jvlargulis is Professor of Management. Students What We learn~ Co-Teaching an As part of my job as S\\J teach SWS classes, an ate to co-teach classes witl observe the program in acti questions about incorporat riculum. In fall2000, I spol of Sociology Sharon Prev1 co-teaching one of her wint Social Science Research M< collaborate, as she was inte students could gain from th ing writing. We'd like to foe things we learned from ou1 the importance of comprel and 2) the ways of using students' learning and writi We chose Sharon's Tu team teaching, as it met jus scheduling and planning e< Sharon and I met a few tin January, before the semeste: syllabus, the assignments, a that point we imagined ou distinct role: Sharon woul and I would teach writing. course, we realized our fin writers and teachers. Our "writing teacher" and "resea too narrowly defined for h Even more important, sud was problematic because it sian that the two are sepan content and learning about writing of content clarifies, learning. To minimize students' writing and Sharon taught· 

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