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I have never been a big football fan. I didn’t go to a single game when I was a student at the University of Iowa. Thanks to two former roommates I am only now moderately interested in only college football. Yet, since I’ve moved away from campus to Denver, I have become an ardent Hawkeyes fan. Is this an alumni complex? I am finding more than ever that supporting the football program when I’m not in Iowa, keeps me connected to Iowa City for what it is worth.
So far in class we have been reading All Quiet on the Western Front and discussing WWI. Today in a discussion about how gas was outlawed after the war for being “too violent” a weapon a student asked me:
“If they outlawed gas, why not nuclear weapons?”
Making connections folks. History informing the modern age, this is what it is all about. I wanted to jump up and down screaming Yes!! but I didn’t want to look crazy in front of an assistant principal.
I did however manage a “Mhmmm, that would make a good paper topic.”
I have student taught for one week so far at an expeditionary school out here in Colorado. My immediate thoughts:
1) Hey Kids! Your teachers (me) use Wikipedia too, but you’ll never know.
2) I amazed at the stamina at some of my fellow teachers, amazed and envious.
Student teaching set:
Fall 2009
9th Grade Humanities
Mapleton Expeditionary School for the Arts (MESA)
Thornton, CO
now to not be homeless…
