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East German citizens climb the Berlin Wall
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#Humanitiesinclass
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This collection includes contributions from members of the National Humanities Center's education project Humanities in Class. The project aims to develop a deeper portfolio of curricular materials and help set standards for humanities education that highlight differences among humanities disciplines.
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A few lines of poetry might be all we need...
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<p>I remember seeing the images on the television, in newspapers, and in magazines. It was such an epic event. The Berlin Wall was coming down, something I never imagined would happen. As a child in the 50s and 60s, I remember bomb drills during elementary school.</p>
<p>Several of my friends had fallout shelters in their homes. I used to be afraid of bombs, of communists, of Khrushchev. I tried to understand how a wall could divide the city of Berlin into two very different places.</p>
<p>And then, in 1989, the unbelievable happened. I had just accepted an interim job teaching Senior English at Mooresville High School, and I wasn’t sure how to deal with such a momentous moment in history. Just a few lines from Stephen Vincent Benet’s <em>John Brown’s Body</em> made everything crystal clear and powerful.</p>
<p>Sometimes there comes a crack in Time itself. <br />Sometimes the earth is torn by something blind. <br />Sometimes an image that has stood so long <br />It seems implanted as the polar star <br />Is moved against an unfathomed force <br />That suddenly will not have it any more.</p>
<p>Those six lines provided so much focus for our classroom discussion and reflection... and awe.<br /><br />My students were so engaged in this lesson, and I am sure some of these words and images continue to affect them today. I certainly hope my humanities moment enriched their lives and changed the way they thought about our world then and now. <br /><br /></p>
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My students were so engaged in this lesson, and I am sure some of these words and images continue to affect them today. I certainly hope my humanities moment enriched their lives and changed the way they thought about our world then and now.
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Stephen Vincent Benet’s lines from <em>John Brown’s Body</em>
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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November, 1989
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<a href="http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/humanities-in-class-guide-thinking-learning-in-humanities/">Nancy Gardner</a>, educational consultant and NBCT teacher
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Benet, Stephen Vincent
Berlin Wall, 1969-1989
John Brown's Body
Mooresville, North Carolina
Poetry
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World History