7th and 8th Grade English Students Tackle Powerful Topics

Carolyn Warhaftig
In 7th and 8th grade English classes:  Seventh graders are building background on apartheid in South Africa before they start reading It's Me, Trevor Noah: Born a Crime. Students are having conversations about how to have hard conversations in the classroom and how to create safe spaces for peers to learn and share.
 
Eighth graders are reading and following along to the audiobook to Elie Weisel's Night, intentionally listening as witnesses to this horrific event in history. Prior to their reading, students read background on and discussed Hitler's rise to power, paying attention to his meticulous and intentional "othering" of people he believed to be different, and inferior.
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