To get the rent to support the store, the front room was converted into a pirate shop with items such as peg legs eye patches and replacement eye balls. I thought this was a very good idea because from my point of view, I would rather walk into a tudoring store with pirate goodies than a very formal office space with tudors. With this store, children could come in after school and get help from writers, editors, and authors serving as tudor. With the children doing their homework at the store with the converted tudors, it provides a gap between television and other activities that the speaker says is important to not combine homework with. The store also lets students write stories to possibly put in stories. They found that the motivation of kids to get their stories in books can help them get interested in learning. One thing that I thought was interesting is how the idea of a joint tudoring/retail store can spred from San Franciso all the way to Brooklyn, NY with the similar idea of a retail store with goodies (i.e. superhero item store).
To wrap up the speech, the speaker talks about how we need to share our ideas with the world and get things out there as what we think could make a large impact. Overall, I thought that Eggers had an excellent message. I loved how he used creativity to bring together children and the writing community together for a good purpose of teaching students. The use of hand gestures were good because, for some reason, it helped tie me in to the speech. With that said, I wish that he would have been more fluid with his talking as he was spastic in his talking and very choppy with his message.
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