Students: working with you this year has been a delight. Each of you has brought innumerable insight, joy, fun, and hope to Rm. 33, and once summer arrives, I will miss our conversations, projects, and collective growth.
However...however!
We still have our final project to finish: our "Ideal Country" creations. As we discussed in class today, these projects give you a chance to try and form a society better than the ones we have recently explored. We want to try and create systems that can help provide justice, equality, and freedom for the people who live in your countries, and yet also maintain stability. We have seen how rule in Nazi Germany and then in Taliban Afghanistan failed miserably on those fronts, and now you have the chance to create in hope.
Think deeply, yet marry your thinking to solid and practical ideas.
Good luck!
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Writing to (Help) Change the World
As we finish Livia Britton-Jackson's powerful memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years, we will begin to ask ourselves one of the toughest questions we can: How can we take our learning beyond the four walls of our classroom to create change for the world in which we live?
We've studied the Holocaust, we have learned about child labor, and we now know that there are currently approximately 27 million slaves in the world today. It is time to take our passion for writing beyond the walls of our classroom and create change for justice.
Towards the end of this week and in the following two weeks, we will craft insightful essays in which each class will choose a theme. Together, we will revise our work, help one another edit, and learn about what it takes to put together a book of meaningful writing that we can then use as a fundraiser for one of the important causes we have studied this year.
Last year's class chose to work with an organization called Women for Women, which helped to free women from slavery and also educate many women who have never learned to read. It was a moving experience for us as a class, and I can't wait to dive into this project with you all!
It is a way to continue to work on strong writing skills while we also make a difference in the world around us!
We've studied the Holocaust, we have learned about child labor, and we now know that there are currently approximately 27 million slaves in the world today. It is time to take our passion for writing beyond the walls of our classroom and create change for justice.
Towards the end of this week and in the following two weeks, we will craft insightful essays in which each class will choose a theme. Together, we will revise our work, help one another edit, and learn about what it takes to put together a book of meaningful writing that we can then use as a fundraiser for one of the important causes we have studied this year.
Last year's class chose to work with an organization called Women for Women, which helped to free women from slavery and also educate many women who have never learned to read. It was a moving experience for us as a class, and I can't wait to dive into this project with you all!
It is a way to continue to work on strong writing skills while we also make a difference in the world around us!
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