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Back in notes from April 2019 to update a lesson I haven't taught since then. 3 days before the Poway murder & we had no idea what was coming... I announced a Yom Hashoah ceremony coming up on 5/1 I that was going to be plain & regular - not full of trauma & fresh shock...
Yes, 2019 (the #BeforeTimes, the "golden era") before our lives changed... was an excruciating year...
Also in the weeks before the murder, I showed in class or on campus:
--Sometimes in April
--Battle of Algiers
--Holocaust docs
I was already emotionally exhausted from this material *by* the murder. I went in for bodywork that day because I was SPENT... & heard in the car. 💔
--Sometimes in April
--Battle of Algiers
--Holocaust docs
I was already emotionally exhausted from this material *by* the murder. I went in for bodywork that day because I was SPENT... & heard in the car. 💔
Battle of Algiers is tough to watch anyway. I'll watch it this week for the first time in 4 days and then hopefully have time to recover. And luckily I am not teaching the Shoah at the very same time in my other classes this year...
Oh ****, I forgot that Battle begins with the aftermath of torture. It's hard from 5 seconds in....
I can't preview it anymore, it's too hard... I'll face that scene in class with my students. UGH.
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