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[auspicioustarantula]

hi i used to be a popular newsies blog and therefore i nominate myself as the poor bitch who was the leader of manhattan before jack

[macbookpro-hard-drive]

newsie: blanket

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please say its not a real newsie

but also thats me as a newsie.

[ch-ch-ch-ch-cherrybomb]

i have but one comment on twin skeletons: they made us read maus (I + II) in 7th grade

Maus is a great work. I’ve heard of it being taught a lot of different class levels. I personally wasn’t assigned it until I was in my first year of college, but I’ve heard from people who were asked to read it for the first time anywhere between middle school and graduate school. Personally, I think it is a topic that ought to be taught BEFORE you get to university. One issue I ran across time and again once I was in college was that the comfortable versions of the truth that I was taught in elementary school and high school were Not True and were mostly Lies. Topics like World War II were simplified a lot. I recall being taught that American troops entered the war in response to the Holocaust, something I have since learned is almost laughably far from the truth. 

What I’m saying is, reading Maus I + II in seventh grade might have been a bit hard. It’s an easy read but the topics are difficult, and I’m sure some of it might have been a bit tough to grasp as a seventh grader. But also you probably learned a lot from it, and I’m glad that you had the opportunity to be introduced to something closer to what actually happened to Holocaust victims before you were 19. 

[zombiemurphy]

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