As I sat and reflected on the upcoming week, I remembered to look on the Teaching Tolerance website, and found a unit on Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice, as well as a number of other fabulous ideas. I'm not sure where I'm going to fit this in, but I know that I will. I need to take some quality time to plan outward, to think beyond the next week, which is hard with the new preps and the new textbook and corresponding curriculum framework. I need to sit down and map out the entire semester, at least loosely, so I have a better idea of what I'm doing and how to include the "extras" I so want to teach. I also am realizing that the first semester is going to be as much error as trial and error, and I have to be okay with failing a bit more than I am comfortable with. What was the phrase? Spend more time in the unknowing? Oh, but it's oh so hard to do that.
Also, I received the Virginia Holocaust Museum loan of a class set of graphic novels, X-Men: Magneto Testament; a timely resource, especially with what's happening in Germany right now.
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