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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Romeo and Juliet</title>
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		<title>Ewww. (Moral Relativism in 7th grade.)</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsters on Maple Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Earth Men]]></category>

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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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