i just wrapped up a six-week unit in my reading class on the civil rights movement. my students analyzed primary sources and informational texts, and then completed an in-depth analysis of martin luther king, jr.'s "i have a dream" speech. my dear coworker, suzanne, and i have been amazed at the children's responses to our discussions on discrimination and brutality, segregation and justice, nonviolence and perseverence. we kept having those teaching moments where we looked at each other, our eyes wide, thinking, "oh my gosh. they get it. they MORE than get it."
i concluded our unit with this video (which many of you probably saw last year when the event occurred). in it, john lewis, now a congressman from georgia and a former leader of the sncc, has an emotional reunion with elwin wilson, a former kkk member. the discussion it gave birth to in our classroom was beautiful. i hope you find the video beautiful as well.
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One of your best! Have you seen
the youtube music video "White Man" by The Michael Gungor Band? I'm, also, reading a book that
fits right in, The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith. Smith mentions the Brennan Manning you have mentioned in earlier blogs; he said, "perhaps no one has taught me more about the love of God than he."
Isn't it neat how "coincidental" bits from various sources all fit together for us- a God thing.
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