Working on: doing everything possible while Roman is napping.
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This month brings back-to-school thoughts with it. Specifically, I return to West officially at 9am the 24th to do my volunteering assignment of handing out new schedules to 7th graders. I love picking on the new ones. :)

Next week I do my 2nd seminar on American History. This year we concentrate on "Post War America"; for middle schoolers, the development of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, & also the Reconstruction Era. For high schoolers, the age I like to call "it seemed like nothing happened" (1920s) and also the 1950s-70s. So here are the catchy questions & deeper subjects of which we will delve into:

"Did the Constitution go too far, or not far enough?"
(Slavery and the Constitution - subquestion being, "why the need for a "more perfect union"?)

"Was radical Reconstruction even radical?"
(Amendments and African-Americans, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, subquestion being, "how do you end slavery when the Constitution protects private property?")

"What is our place in a democracy?"
(1920s culture and Harlem Renaissance)

"Happy Days or Anxious Days?"
(Riots of '67, Hippies & the New Left)

I am quite excited to be thinking intelligently again. Have a lot of reading this week to prep for this; will, of course, stimulate on-line brains as I go through it.






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