Lesson 69

 

Students spent the first few minutes of class answering some questions we hadn't looked at in a long while. 

We watched a short reel from Indigenous Drag Race Canada contestant/influencer/commentator/comedian Chezlazon Leroux - in it, various stereotypes are mentioned, subverted, laughed at...it offered a glimpse into culture, and reminded us that our Danish butter cookie sewing tins are a universal Canadian norm. 

We talked, at length, about "The Miracle of Minerva." We talked about the concept of blood memory and the way in which Minerva's capacity to tear down the "middle finger thrown into the sky" (173) might offer hope to those with out money, power, resources...(with this, we returned to the parallel of the gates of Auschwitz and those of school #47E - and the difference between what it took to end the horrors  behind them).

 Students read "Loss" until the bell - we will pick up there next class.