This is a great article for the kids to sink their teeth into as they think about our history class. First, the headline: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We can spend a few minutes discussing their answer but then we can turn to the question of how you’d try and answer this question, as a scholar, but particularly as a historian. Then we’d read it<\/p>\n\n\n\n The entire article is here<\/a> and we’ll read this one way or another — out loud, small groups, quietly — and then discuss how the author approached the inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Something I’m thinking about, having just finished Damnation Spring <\/a>(an unbelievably good novel that you should track down right now) is how we make sense of the present day and how much human beings can ignore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fisher, Max. \u201cIs the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way?\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, July 12, 2022, sec. World. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/12\/world\/interpreter-world-falling-apart.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a great article for the kids to sink their teeth into as they think about our history class. First, the headline: Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way? We can spend a few minutes discussing their answer but then we can turn to the question of how … Continue reading Article for the fall<\/span>