In the previous class, Rajosmita had left the students with a list of terms to dig deeper into. Picking two from there I began my first class for this new batch of the Human Rights Defenders programme at Chowringhee High: Civil law and Martial law. ccccOne student read out a definition of civil law from…
We picked up from where we finished in the last class, so that was with discussing the line from Jerry Pinto- ‘The fading is much much faster for the lesser being’. ccccThe students had some confusion regarding what fading could imply, given the context of Pinto’s article. So, we began with exploring what it would…
This was my first class with this batch of students at the Chowringhee High School. It was a class of approximately 30 students from the 9th grade. ccccThe class began with me writing out some words drawing from the module including Anne Frank, human rights, Nazi, Fascism, identity, caste, religion, gender, citizenship. The students were…
This was a brief class which was held pretty soon after the previous one, so we just picked up from where we left off, and the students caught on very fast. We had asked the students to discuss everything they learnt with at least one other classmate who was not taking this course, and…
It was the last group’s turn to present their work in the propaganda assignment we began two classes ago. Having been busy with a host of extra curriculars, they had not had the chance to make a ‘negative’ propaganda assignment I was informed. Their presentation (image of poster below) was received unanimously with quiet approval…
