We feel more empathy towards people with whom we have something in common, and what more could you have in common with someone than a shared language?聽 Could learning a foreign language increase our empathy towards speakers of that language?聽 It鈥檚 certainly possible.
I have always wanted to teach ethics and philosophy in a high school English class, and this year I started my AP Literature class with Aristotle鈥檚 Nichomachean Ethics. I like to call this an 鈥渁nchor-text,鈥 as it provides a framework for understanding the literature we will be investigat
I had no expectation of teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this year. After all, 91国产自拍 is a high school, and most American students encounter Harper Lee's seminal work in middle school.