Love this history! I am a high school English teacher. Now that we are seeing an uptick in attacks on education, I would love to talk about the history of public education. I would also like to share history I’ve learned about CA’s contributions to public education history and connections to JD Vance and current resegregationists.
Another hs English teacher here. I’ve been teaching and refining my am lit class to be an A-A lit class for the last few years. Harriot is a pillar for the course: nonfiction writing that uses the rhetorical triangle to amazing effect (and in looking at how his writing works they learn some shit).
I’m doing a unit on The Great Gatsby in dialogue with Ta-Nehisi Coates. We are unpacking the American Dream. I’m in a Blue/liberal city and my students are decidedly anti Trump. Nonetheless, it’s amazing how many will argue that Elon “deserves” the spoils of his wealth. One of the guiding questions underlying the unit is “Is the American Dream accessible to all Americans?” If you have any readings or videos you think would be prescient, I’d love to hear about them.
Which Coates are you using? I used “the beautiful struggle” the first time I taught this course (reading it when it came out gave me the idea; my students are gifted, neurodivergent, and economically privileged and there are really useful points of connection and difference in his story that they relate to), but cut it last year to put in a unit more overtly focused on disability, which I’m going to revise again next year. I’ve also taught TKAM by having students think about point of view and subject position and what it means that the canonic novel on American racism presents a white lawyer as its hero and the loss of innocence of white children as its plot line.
Your link to the government’s NIH website about the “New American ‘Scientists’” (eugenicist rats) returns a “Page Not Found” result. Another source of information covering accurate, ungodly history of institutional American racism erased from the internet by the scared little kleptoparasites at the top.
I long for an "all of the above".
Love this history! I am a high school English teacher. Now that we are seeing an uptick in attacks on education, I would love to talk about the history of public education. I would also like to share history I’ve learned about CA’s contributions to public education history and connections to JD Vance and current resegregationists.
Another hs English teacher here. I’ve been teaching and refining my am lit class to be an A-A lit class for the last few years. Harriot is a pillar for the course: nonfiction writing that uses the rhetorical triangle to amazing effect (and in looking at how his writing works they learn some shit).
I’m doing a unit on The Great Gatsby in dialogue with Ta-Nehisi Coates. We are unpacking the American Dream. I’m in a Blue/liberal city and my students are decidedly anti Trump. Nonetheless, it’s amazing how many will argue that Elon “deserves” the spoils of his wealth. One of the guiding questions underlying the unit is “Is the American Dream accessible to all Americans?” If you have any readings or videos you think would be prescient, I’d love to hear about them.
Which Coates are you using? I used “the beautiful struggle” the first time I taught this course (reading it when it came out gave me the idea; my students are gifted, neurodivergent, and economically privileged and there are really useful points of connection and difference in his story that they relate to), but cut it last year to put in a unit more overtly focused on disability, which I’m going to revise again next year. I’ve also taught TKAM by having students think about point of view and subject position and what it means that the canonic novel on American racism presents a white lawyer as its hero and the loss of innocence of white children as its plot line.
Um loving this class, yet individual assignment...
Your link to the government’s NIH website about the “New American ‘Scientists’” (eugenicist rats) returns a “Page Not Found” result. Another source of information covering accurate, ungodly history of institutional American racism erased from the internet by the scared little kleptoparasites at the top.