The other day in class, my high school students were telling me about things they’re grateful for. That’s how I found out that Bernice really likes Nazis.
At first I thought her classmates were teasing her, so we opened the floor for Bernice to defend herself.
“I like Germany the country.”
“Well, that doesn’t mean you’re a Nazi.”
“Also, [...]
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It’s HitlerMania!
June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Separate but equal
March 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A few things:
As part of my new lesson plan to teach American culture and history, this week I started teaching the Declaration of Independence to my high school kids. Apparently I couldn’t have timed things worse–after some prompting, my students informed me that this weekend one of the papers ran an entire ad-free issue entitled [...]
Sometimes kids don’t get it
February 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I hope everyone has a great Valentine’s Day. I spent it with my students teaching them how to make paper hearts and making pig hats (see photo–the coming lunar year is the Year of the Pig). We decided to make the paper hearts into valentines for our mothers, so I had them copy “Happy Valentine’s [...]
Halloween in China
October 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments
Happy Halloween!
My apologies for the long, long time between blog posts. Since I last wrote, I took an amazing trip to Shanhaiguan, which is where the Great Wall terminates into the Yellow Sea. I’ve been writing and re-writing an account of the trip for the last month and…it’s not done yet. I’ve been picking and [...]