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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Emily Dickinson</title>
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		<title>Ewww. (Moral Relativism in 7th grade.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poem #435 by that strange duck (really) Emily Dickinson is a pretty good intro for Bradbury&#8217;s &#8220;The Earth Men.&#8221;  And the idea that the majority decides who&#8217;s normal and who&#8217;s not (and everything else) really gets some of the kids angry. Seventh graders are strange ducks as well. They like to think of themselves as unique (If I ask, &#8220;How many of you are weird?&#8221; every hand will go up), but their biggest fear is not fitting in. And they all like think of themselves as  rugged individualists. &#8220;The majority doesn&#8217;t decide EVERYTHING!&#8221; &#8220;Like what do they not decide?&#8221; Lots of hemming and hawing. &#8220;Coolness? Weirdness? Lameness? What?&#8221; More hemming and hawing. &#8220;How about things like murder and child abuse and racism?&#8221; &#8220;Racism is an easy one. Even in the time Tom Sawyer is set, you would hear sermons in churches about how slavery was God&#8217;s will. But, hmmm. You might be right about the murder one; some things are probably built into us. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe it&#8217;s just that the majority of us think that now. Hmmm. But&#8230;well, let&#8217;s talk about Romeo and Juliet again (we talked about it before when we had soliloquy as a vocabulary word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telepathy vs. Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re picking and choosing our way through Ray Bradbury&#8217;s The Martian Chronicles.  We just finished the story &#8220;The Earth Men.&#8221; Even when we read the whole thing like a novel (which we&#8217;re not doing this time: I think we&#8217;ll only read 4 or 5 this time &#8211; and this time we&#8217;re doing all the reading in class), I always start with this story. The kids always wonder why we start on p16, but EMen, as we call it, has much more of a hook than &#8220;Ylla,&#8221; the jealous husband story that begins the book (after the scientifically implausible 1-pager, &#8220;Rocket Summer&#8221;). And since most of the short stories weren&#8217;t originally intended to be connected in a novel, we have some wiggle room on the selection and the order. Now of course telepathy &#8211; the key element of the story &#8211;  is just as scientifically implausible as a rocket changing the weather, but it&#8217;s a lot more fun to speculate upon. After Mrs. Ttt (which we shorten to Mrs. T &#8211; some of them even chuckle when we meet Mr.T &#8211; &#8220;I pity the fool&#8221;) says, &#8220;I not speaking, I&#8217;m thinking. Telepathy,&#8221; I stop and ask, &#8220;How many of you would [...]]]></description>
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