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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (103456)	5/8/2005 6:19:45 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I would be permitted to do just about anything with parental approval, especially since I teach seniors at the moment. But I wouldn't present one point of view in the absence of others. I might present several documentaries, with interesting POV's - in the context of exploring the documentary- but I wouldn't (for example) present a film like Fahrenheit 9-11, simply because I think it is too emotional, and too polarizing. Other teachers disagree with me on that, and that's ok with me. I think animal rights is less scary than Fahrenheit, so I think I would be ok showing a film like Go Further- with a bunch of other documentaries, but I wouldn't feel free to say "I agree with this film; this is what is right. You should be like this." I don't really feel comfortable saying that about anything except I do advocate 1.kindness 2. politeness and tolerance (which is NOT the same thing as "acceptance") 3. education (especially reading and math literacy) 4. being healthy- trying to eat right, sleep enough to be awake in school, and be careful with life, since it is fragile. I think that's about all I advocate. I thought of one other thing- I DO try to encourage students to look at issues from all sides. I think that is probably the most subversive thing I do. I don't think of it as subversive, just thorough, but I think people who are very focused in black and white might see that as subversive. Luckily we are supposed to get our students to analyze things from all sides- it's the only way to learn rhetoric, and that is in the standards, so I'm unlikely to catch any grief for that.