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On August 28, 2013, I began my seventh year as an English teacher at a public high school. As many teachers do, I opened my classes with an icebreaker game: Two Truths and a Lie. I chose this game, in which I give the students three “facts” about my life and ask them to guess which statement is false, because it allows me to create an open and trusting environment. In the process of playing this game, I told them about my own experiences with family, with poverty, with education. After playing a few rounds, I then asked the students if they would like to have me guess about them. Many volunteered … and the floodgates opened. One student revealed to me that she had been a prostitute. Another student talked about stabbing her sister’s abusive boyfriend with a pair of scissors. And yet another student shared about expecting his first-born child later that year.
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Arduini, B.J. (2015). Teaching The Crucible through Human Rights. In: Katz, S.R., Spero, A.M. (eds) Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471130_9
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