{"id":2194,"date":"2016-06-11T01:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:26:38","slug":"high-school-students-introduced-to-innocence-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2194","title":{"rendered":"High school students introduced to \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160610Murrow.jpg\" alt=\"Edward R. Murrow\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160610Murrow.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/160610Murrow-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward R. Murrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">June 10, 2016<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s heartening to see that, 25 years later, \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d is still shining light on the wrongful prosecution of the Edenton Seven \u2013 \u00a0and for a younger audience!\u00a0 This is a note from Judy Griffin, a teacher at Hamilton High School in Michigan, who recently rediscovered Ofra Bikel\u2019s eight-hour masterpiece:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to know how helpful it is (to have \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?page_id=90\">available online<\/a>).\u00a0I teach in a resource room English class.\u00a0 The kids have no cognitive issues, but reading is a tremendous struggle.\u00a0 When they can receive the information through really good videos like this one, we can cover some great information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe start by reading Edward R. Murrow&#8217;s introduction to \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Edward-Murrows-This-Believe-Selections\/dp\/1419680404\" target=\"_blank\">This I Believe<\/a>.\u2019\u00a0Then the students create digital versions of their own.\u00a0 After that, they view \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0433383\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Night, and Good Luck<\/a>.\u2019 They have just learned about McCarthyism at this point in U.S. History, so it is fresh in their minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe move then into <em>The Crucible<\/em>.\u00a0 The students are then asked to compare this to \u2018Good Night, and Good Luck.\u2019\u00a0 They read \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1996\/10\/21\/why-i-wrote-the-crucible\" target=\"_blank\">Why I wrote The Crucible<\/a>\u2019\u00a0by Arthur Miller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the conclusion, we talk about how these hysterias are repeated and actually happened even prior to Salem.\u00a0 I introduce the Day Care scandal, and was thrilled to find the original \u2018Frontline\u2019 episodes.\u00a0 I had seen it when it aired!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are now researching various aspects of the hysteria.\u00a0 Some are looking at \u2018satanic ritual abuse,\u2019 some are looking at how hysteria spreads, some are researching what happened to the various defendants, and some are looking at the causes.\u00a0 We emphasize that this is not unique to any of these situations, and the point of this all is to show how vulnerable societies are to hysteria&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 2016 It\u2019s heartening to see that, 25 years later, \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d is still shining light on the wrongful prosecution of the Edenton Seven \u2013 \u00a0and for a younger audience!\u00a0 This is a note from Judy Griffin, a teacher at Hamilton High School in Michigan, who recently rediscovered Ofra Bikel\u2019s eight-hour masterpiece: \u201cI want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}