We began class with two images: What do you think you see? The responses sounded uncertain, a few surprised giggles here and there.Were those toys; were they grenades of some kind? That has to be Hitler, why are there two Santa Clauses? Is that a lightsaber? ccccThis session continued where the last had stopped, on…
We began the second class with a basic overview of what we had done in the previous class since there had been a two week disconnect. As this class was a double period we had the opportunity to cover a lot of ground. ccccWe intended to cover the Jewish Holocaust next as per the module,…
After a long hiatus that spanned over two chaotic sessions with different batches of students each and a summer break, we returned to Akshar, having streamlined the motley crowd of class 9-11 students down to students of class 10 only. I asked the students to pick a concern they would like to start…
We went into our first class unsure of what to expect, but the response we got was more positive than our most optimistic predictions. Our class comprised of students from class nine, ten and eleven. Having students who were actually, genuinely interested made our work a lot easier, and the aims we had gone in…
For our final session at Chowringhee High, we brought the discussion to India, and specifically to the Gujarat riots of 2002. We referred to an article by the The New York Times, along with the Wikipedia page about the riots to give the students an idea about what happened and the subsequent controversies. We then…
