So...with only a few hours to go I'm just now realizing that I did this wrong. Bummer. Basically, I had my meeting with my colleague who teaches history at Mt. Blue and shared my unit plan with him, so far. (I didn't realize I was suppose to assist him in creating his Stage 1.) Here's what we talked about:
I shared my unit with him and we discussed how he still has yet to read The Book Thief. He seemed to really enjoy my theme The Power & Value of Words. He mentioned how it is a really great yearly focus and could come up in almost any of his units.
Then we moved on to the topic of the Holocaust and what he'd cover in his history class. We bounced ideas back and forth about topics he would talk about with his students, which were: discrimination (racism & sexism), bias (profiling & stereotyping), hate (anger, frustration, & scapegoating), dehumanization, social hierarchy (classes - superiority/inferiority), perfection (positive/negative).
Jim is really excited to be teaching these topics and ideas at the same time and we even talked briefly about co-teaching a lesson or two together (no specific details yet). Jim is really energetic and I think he will be really fun to work with on this.
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