When you can have a class of high schoolers use Google maps on their computers to find where the Oyster Bay Roosevelts lived and the Hyde Park Roosevelts, it is not like when I went to High School!
The two Roosevelts who became Presidents also were opposites : Theodore and Franklin.
Then discuss The Great Gatsby which takes place near Oyster Bay, NY in what is Great Neck ( near where I grew up between Oyster Bay and Great Neck)
Then read Wendell Berry's Why I am not going buy a Computer.
All of it flowed from one discussion to another among all the ideas within!
Eleanor Roosevelt on What's My Line:
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Love that you are in the middle of all of this!
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