Yesterday I found out that I am teaching a higher level course for 8th grade students who have tested out of Reading classes. Co-ed class. Pretty much whatever I want to teacher. Initially I was stunned. Crap what could I teach? I ended up settling on some piece of student apathy. Figured that after defining Apathy, Empathy, and Sympathy we could figure out where to go.

I had students write what they are looking forward to and decided, fuck this what they really need is me. Haha!

I found an awesome Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Liberation Curriculum. Going to look at that even though I think that it is biased to MLKJr.
Audre Lorde -- Uses of Anger.
Assata Shakur -- Message from the Cuba.
Ifeni Menkiti -- Individualism vs. Communitarianism.

And so on. They want to be challenged? I challenged them to challenge the world. They want to practice writing so they can do well on the CRCT? Bring it.

I'm actually totally excited for this class! Whee.