  
| Today several of my sixth-grade students, their parents and I had the wonderful fortune of attending the play "Anne and Emmett" at the DuSable Museum of African American History. The field trip was a reward for those students who finished in the Top Five of My NewsELA Summer Reading Challenge. Basically, students had to read articles on NewsELA each week throughout the summer and take quizzes to earn points. Overall, the play was amazing as Anne Frank and Emmett Till met in a place called "Memory" and discussed their tragic, but never forgotten, lives, including some haunting details that I did not know about but am glad to have learned. The information on Emmett Till was especially enlightening and very hard to swallow 60 years after his terrible death. It has been nearly four hours since the play ended, and I am feeling a bevy of emotions that are really hard to explain. One thing that I can definitely convey is how proud I am of my students for the maturity and sensitivity that they displayed as the play tackled some very uncomfortable issues that needed to be discussed. I am glad that we were able to take this trip and look forward to talking to my students about their reactions during lunch on Monday. Additionally, I wanted to thank Ms. Romo and Mrs. Aviles for helping drive students, and Mr. Lee for attending as well. |
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