The other day, my third-year teacher approaches me and says, "Would you do a culture time for the next lesson? Something about maybe a Nobel Prize winner, or somebody that everyone all over the world respects?" Sure thing. This most recent unit my third years studied is titled "Stevie Wonder: The Power of Music." A page of the chapter is devoted to the song, "It's Wrong (Apartheid)." Nelson Mandela. Piece of cake. On my cut-it-paste-it-print-it-off "Culture Time" sheet, I paste in a picture from his Wikipedia entry. Public schools here still technologically being stuck in 1994 (one of the two computers in the staff office connected to the internet has a sticker that says "Designed for Windows 95/NT"), I toss the worksheet onto the ditto machine (the kind that's like a mini printing press, not a photocopier), and hit print. His picture shows up a bit darker than one would hope. One of my students apparently couldn't bear the thought of not seeing his face, so she gave him one of her own.

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