sounds kind of weird, but this changed my life. it came at a time when I had a lot of questions and i couldn't make sense of my feelings. I actually used quots from the Zinn piece for the readin at my wedding a few months back.

it awakened me, and made me educate myself as to what was going on in the world.

Anyone else?

not yet, but i may check it out. thats a pretty strong testimony.

it is. immediate post 9/11 was a strange time. The manual kind of expressed everything I was feeling.

check it out. there's nothing earth shattering in there, just some insight that hit me at the right time!

the cartoons are great. I've used a number of them in classes before.

stip, you a teacher?

I taught middle school for two years after college and taught at a Johns Hopkins CTY esque summer camp for four. After the middle school teaching I went back to grad school. I teach at Rutgers now while I finish my PHD

nice. everyone i know that teaches is getting out. kids today. its that dam rap music

I'm actually thinking of teaching high school instead of college when I finish. I'll see what I can do about that rap music.

hahaha

I definitely echo your sentiments about the manual for free living. I think I read all but a couple of those books that were listed in there. To say those books were eye-opening is an understatement.

maybe stip can have his high school students read some?

I forget what's in it. I used A People's History extensively with my middle school students.

people's history is a GREAT book for high school students Creates a lot of dialogue, and challenges everything they have ever learned about our history!

I used it in conjunction with a generic text book to also teach about how history can be manipulated and distorted without actually lying to achieve political ends.

dude, we need more teachers like that! ones that challenge the mind, not just teach the same old bs.

Of course, it plays right into teh "liberal education" that we force down children's throats.

wrong forum?

eat me.

it stared as a thread about the manual for free living, which if i recall, came from PJ.

it still baffles me to this day that people would even post something that dumb in a thread.

who fuckin cares what forum we're in.

I was already familiar with all the writers featured in the newsletter, so the manual itself didn't change my life, but certainly the information in it did at one time.

I still am not right from 9/11. I'm still fucked up in some strange way from it all. I think part of it is guilt of not still being in the military..

I will have to check this out

Youkan

youkan, check out the manual. It really helped me figure some things out. I was so angry after 9/11, and I wanted revenge bad for losing some friends. Then came the Iraq buildup, and my feelings weren't jiving with what I was being force fed by the media.

this thread inspired me to bust out the manual for the first time in a few years. The best thing the fan club ever put out


A People's history is still the best reccomendation in there.