tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89966091242396520.post2779269070951447245..comments2023-05-03T02:02:03.644-07:00Comments on Uncle Sam's Attic: Informal reflection on women's rightsLaura Giffordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06986572878187796174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89966091242396520.post-61134444565165833212012-10-18T19:46:12.042-07:002012-10-18T19:46:12.042-07:00Laura,
I enjoyed your post - it is a good reminde...Laura,<br /><br />I enjoyed your post - it is a good reminder and nice to put things in perspective. As I read your comment about your teaching tactic, I am (as always) impressed by your intelligence and your commitment to your students. I am sure you are a great teacher. I hope you know it, too. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89966091242396520.post-82696527295516504412012-10-18T09:07:35.585-07:002012-10-18T09:07:35.585-07:00Thanks, Jason! I know what you mean. As hard as ...Thanks, Jason! I know what you mean. As hard as I find it to remember personally just how recent these changes occurred, it can be even harder to impress that upon even younger students (Freshmen born in 1994! Yikes!).<br /><br />I struck upon a tactic last spring that seemed useful and that I plan to do again of putting things in more personal terms -- not in the sense of family history, but by explaining, for example, that if I'd been 33 (as I am now) in 1955, I would have been 23 when WWII ended... my husband would be a veteran... I would have been just reaching my teenage years during the midst of the Great Depression... so in the end, is it all that surprising that 33-year-old 1955 me would want a house in the suburbs and a sense of stability? I noticed some mental light bulbs switching on. It's a thought exercise that could be applied more broadly to help students (and me) make that leap to a fuzzy "past," and I'm curious to use it in other contexts and see how it works.Laura Giffordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06986572878187796174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89966091242396520.post-4035840575434217512012-10-17T18:33:53.035-07:002012-10-17T18:33:53.035-07:00Thanks for sharing that. I'm teaching the seco...Thanks for sharing that. I'm teaching the second half of the U.S. survey and need to keep in mind that just because the 1920s may seem like a long time ago to my students (most of whom don't really remember life before a "war on terror") they really aren't.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11671050987524165406noreply@blogger.com