Re: Holocaust collection

["Aleene B. Nielson" <ablanca@BIGPLANET.COM>]

Bea Ishler wrote:

> I would think that the Holocaust is part of cultural literacy.  Our students
> study it in depth.

I agree that students all over the country study the Holocaust in depth; but
they study it as a part of history rather than making connections with their own
experiences and their own worlds.

Do your students also study the "Trail of Tears" and the genocide of America's
indigenous peoples perpetrated by European colonists?  If not, that should be as
much a part of their cultural literacy as the holocaust.

Aleene Nielson
Former LM Coordinator, Teacher, Prof.
LearningOpportunitiesUnlimited
ablanca@bigplanet.com

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