Summary Of A Note To Parents Regarding The Beginning By Rebecca Shwarz

Everyone remembers having to create dioramas during elementary school. Normally, they were book reports, and, except for the few overachievers in every grade, were rather lackluster. Ms. Miller, a character in a flash fiction story, seems to have the opposite problem, and must lay out a strict set of rules for the students and parents tackling dioramas on the origins and forms of time. In Rebecca Schwarz’s flash fiction story “A Note to Parents Regarding the Beginning and End of Time Diorama Presentations for Ms. Miller’s Third Grade Class,” Schwarz uses a professional tone to display Ms. Miller’s experience and well-adjusted nature in regards to the outlandish material that her students are attempting to create, as well as to provide a humorous tone to the story. …show more content…
Miller has set in place in order to “ensure success… as well as the safety of the class.” This casual way that Ms. Miller addresses the potential danger of the project speaks to her experience in dealing with such projects before. Ms. Miller goes on to explain the parameters of the project, noting that while “space time may be infinite, the dioramas are meant to be a representation to demonstrate [a] child’s knowledge of the beginning and end of time… and that all [the student’s] dioramas must fit on two tables.” This further solidifies her well-adjusted and battleworn state, since a newer teacher would likely be unsure on how to handle a class of potentially dangerous or wormhole filled dioramas, while Ms. Miller’s words prove her to be experienced in the