Subsistence Farming - Hawaii

this is it. 9th grade starts monday. i am excitedly focusing on school (again). we are starting with the life skills block which is based on Dave Ellis’s book BECOMING A MASTER STUDENT. It is really a college text which i got at the reuse center but it is so fascinating and interesting. the sections on “how to go back to college when you have kids” we will skip.

i am so thrilled about how the blocks i will be teaching are coming together. i decided to look at joseph campbell’s power of myth for a reference book for world cultures to show how all cultures share the same mythology and therefore religion…. but now i think it will be the main source for the class. and in fact, i want to tie in literature and art history to the theme of the heroine’s journey. and the heroine’s journey is just the theme i was going to use for american history. who gives a shit about the wars and the changes in rulers. i want lauren to follow history by following the biographies of people who have practiced tikkun (hebrew for ‘making things right in the world”). i want to look at how individuals have made a difference in moving humanity towards equality, freedom and empowerment.

i sat down and wrote my intention for each of the blocks. it was very revealing.