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We finished The Grapes of Wrath and are starting A Gathering of Old Men , but I was gone for a few days. Now, I had intended to do this earlier, but I had time today and we had “music day.” We listened to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and look Read More...
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My school’s Diversity Club sponsired a Day of Silence for “all people whose voice is lost because of” discrimination, bullying, and bias. This was on Friday. On Monday, we had what is titled as a Day of Truth, which is a response to a Day of Silence. Read More...
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One aspect of teaching, which can be quite difficult, is how to make what we teach relevant to students today. Kids seem to think they cannot possibly connect the writings of yesteryear with the hectic, technological, global lives led today; however, Read More...
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Two novels I taught this year were To Kill A Mockingbird and A Gathering of Old Men. Prior to and during reading these novels, I had the kids look at some songs, poems, and historical context. Here are a few of my favorite things concerning the race relations Read More...
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Thousands of high schools around the country participate in the Day of Silence each year, which includes my own high school. However, in my state the bulk of the media’s attention centered on Mt. Si High School because Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Read More...
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