I once taught civics, and I was thinking of introducing an esssy series revolving around the federal holidays: that is, the students would have to write essays about the people or event honored by our ten federal holidays. No doubt, in our PC society writing about the wonderful Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. would elicit much approval when we start the series in January. I wonder how well regarded would the essays devoted to the great man for whom Columbus Day is named, or for the greater man for whom Christmas is named.
I think it would be pretty clever to have this federal holiday essay series...how could anyone object...since it is tied to FEDERAL holidays and not Columbus and Christ.
Holiday essay series. Interesting idea. I wonder if, when you get to next December, any of the students will mention Pope Julius I? Columbus Day would also be an intriguing one. From what I've heard, the textbooks today differ greatly from what I recall.