Frustration and Happiness all in one day
Nov. 5th, 2008 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songspinnerWell, since I'm trying not to feel miserable-er over the open bigotry that is Prop 8, I'll focus on the coolness of my students, at the request of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhapsody11, 'cause teenagers can sometimes be amazingly cool. (and remember that the damn thing is being challenged as we speak, so it can't go into effect yet, I don't think)
I arrived at school to the accompaniment of three or four boys running up to me as I reached my classroom with cries of "We're going to do something this morning that's about Obama, right?!"
I showed my kids the tape of President-Elect Obama's speech, and also prefaced it with explaining that Senator McCain's speech was respectful and well done as well. We watched The Speech together, and it was fun to see my first class get so into it that they were applauding whenever the audience in Chicago did on the tape. :) And of course, this being a mostly bilingual class in an immigrant/migrant community, they totally got the connection to "Yes, we can" to Cesar Chavez's civil rights work and were happily chanting that along with the on-screen audience, too. They were really excited, and it was lovely as a teacher to see that. We ended up waiting for a bit for our Language Arts lesson, as they had a bunch of really good questions about what happens next and what everything will mean. Some of them had been in the celebrations downtown in their city last night, with bands playing and parties, and some had watched the speeches with their families at home.
rhapsody11, 'cause teenagers can sometimes be amazingly cool. (and remember that the damn thing is being challenged as we speak, so it can't go into effect yet, I don't think) I arrived at school to the accompaniment of three or four boys running up to me as I reached my classroom with cries of "We're going to do something this morning that's about Obama, right?!"
I showed my kids the tape of President-Elect Obama's speech, and also prefaced it with explaining that Senator McCain's speech was respectful and well done as well. We watched The Speech together, and it was fun to see my first class get so into it that they were applauding whenever the audience in Chicago did on the tape. :) And of course, this being a mostly bilingual class in an immigrant/migrant community, they totally got the connection to "Yes, we can" to Cesar Chavez's civil rights work and were happily chanting that along with the on-screen audience, too. They were really excited, and it was lovely as a teacher to see that. We ended up waiting for a bit for our Language Arts lesson, as they had a bunch of really good questions about what happens next and what everything will mean. Some of them had been in the celebrations downtown in their city last night, with bands playing and parties, and some had watched the speeches with their families at home.
