Somethig still...

This week has been pretty good for teaching. On Monday, I taught the 11th grade class by myself, which isn't normally what I do. The class was amazing, we didn't have the most exciting lesson, but they listened really well, and we got through what we needed to without any extra hastle. I have been talking a lot about the election with the older classes, and today I found myself trying to talk about who Mormons are, and all that came out where the stereotypes that I know, hmm, maybe I should do a bit more research before I share with 10th graders that Mormons have 4 wives and think that Jesus fled to the US.

What was really interesting this week was one of my eighth grade classes. I made up a cute little story that I traveled to New York, and that every place I mentioned that was very "New York" I found a dollar, and they had to figure out how many dollars I had when I left. It was cute, and they really enjoyed it. But what was really interesting is that three girls did a presentation on September 11th. I never really know what to talk about when that topic comes up, and of course it would since New York is a unit in the book. They gave a talk and then showed part of a documentary that was made. The clip they showed us what the planes hitting the buildings, and I haven't seen the images in probably five or six years, and it made me emotional watching it again. They then asked me what I felt and where I was when it happened. The teacher also shared what she felt when she saw it. The students in the class would have been 7 or 8 when it happened. And that just blows me away as well.