My intern Max delivers a lesson today to 9th graders in a unit study of Elie Wiesel’s Night. Today, he’s asking them to think, write, and speak about indifference. My sixth period, usually rambunctious, squirrely, silly, noisy, rises to the occasion today with seriousness, sincerity, and hope. Max, my intern, asks, What’s our obligation towardContinue reading “#336: Kids These Days”
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#149: Unspeakable
Unspeakable I’m trying to find words to describe how I feel when, during a reading from Elie Wiesel’s Night, I look up and see students looking at their phones. One student, in particular, looks at me, and without irony, without hesitation, and without, I would say, consciousness, says, as if it were a legitimate explanation, that sheContinue reading “#149: Unspeakable”
michael jarmer 