Thank You, Mrs. Whitehouse: The Memory Work of One Student about his High School English Teacher, Forty Years Later

Johnny Saldana tells stories of the places he has traveled and the people he has met, including his former high school English teacher, Ann Whitehouse. This concept of flashback aptly captures one everyday experiences as find oneselves remembering and contemplating the past as work to make sense of the present. This chapter highlights these timespaces of the past, including the lessons learned at home, in school, and in communities. One's memories of actions, motives, and emotions are key experiences that form the construction of one's present identity. Experiences across childhood and youth inform the people become. Interactions in classrooms from yesterday and last month affect the ways make sense today. The spaces of family and school create contexts that children move across as they also move through time. Both time and space are recursive as one minds move back and forth between the present and the past and as occupy spaces previously occupied in different ways on different days.