RE: [ncte-hs] Re: Today's horrific day

[Ramona Pinon <rpinon@ouhsd.k12.ca.us>]

I spent yesterday in my classes (9th graders from ELD to College Prep)
watching the news and providing a forum for dialogue. We processed
together what alone we would not have been able to process. In my lower
level classes we talked about the definitions of some of the words being
used on television: hijacked, terrorism, jihad, etc. Many of my students
still realtively new to this, their adopted country, had no idea what the
Pentagon was or where. They did not understand the symbolic nature of
these buildings.

Today we have a guest speaker from the University of California, Santa
Barbara. During our 5th period class (a SDAIE class) students from our ASB
came around to collect donations for the Red Cross to help the victims and
thier families. I was stunned by the outpouring of dollar bills and change
from my mostly free/reduced luch students. One student said that they gave
up their lunch to donate because "sometimes there are people who need it
more then you need junk food."

Humbled and Proud,
Mona Pinon
Angels_View@hotmail.com

"Those who set themselves up as judges of the truth 
will be drowned in the laughter of the gods."