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Peter Morse, Burlington
3/9/2009 3:28:55 PM
Last fall, Peter Morse got the red carpet treatment from the Dyer Intermediate School in Burlington upon his return from filming a movie in Baraboo. This being a school, and not Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the carpet was construction paper and it was covered in warm remarks from the staff, making it all the more sweet to the French teacher who manages to handle both classrooms and cameras.
“When I got back from filming, it was there waiting for me,” Morse said. “It was this big piece of paper, and all the teachers signed it.”
Morse plays a Gulf War veteran in an ensemble cast in the movie “Baraboo,” which is now in post-production and does not have a set release date.
The movie was written and directed by Mary Sweeney, a Madison native who co-wrote director David Lynch’s movie “The Straight Story” about a man who rode his lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to see his ill brother.
Morse teaches French at the Karcher Middle School in Burlington as well as at the Dyer School. He teaches grades 4 through 8, and many of his younger students take French along with Spanish and German to see what language they’d like to continue to study.
“The whole thing for us – the foreign language teachers – is to get them interested in your class,” Morse said.
Morse said his background as an actor as well as a theater instructor at UW-Milwaukee help him encourage his students.
Like acting, learning a language requires inspiration. Morse approaches his students as if he were a director getting an actor ready for a scene.
“In some classes, I have to become a great motivator,” Morse said.
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