Furthering Your Private Education Outside of School
There are so many ways to raise a child and, as they say, “it takes a village.” Thus, pursuing educational activities that are still fun and enriching throughout the entirety of your summer is almost a necessity. Your private education for your child is a crucial piece of the kind of person your child will become so enhancing that platform for learning and enjoying scholarly pursuits outside of school can only help to capitalize on the fine work you’re already doing.
A Custom Curriculum
If your child is currently enrolled, or interested in enrolling in our high school curriculum it never hurts for them to show current interest in scholarly pursuits. While this project can be approached in various ways, we recommend encouraging inspirational tactics using a basis in core knowledge ideas, like something to do with history or literature. Pushing self-learning is a super healthy habit and it can only serve to make your child better suited in various areas of the workforce. If your student already enjoys history and literature, you might try introducing them to the local Hattie McDaniel home.
The Relevance of the House
Few people are familiar with who, exactly Hattie McDaniel is. In fact, she’s a very notable portion of the early Civil Rights movement. She played the iconic character, Mammy, in the Gone With the Wind film from 1939, which was long before MLK or any of the other civil revolutionaries got their start. As you’re probably aware of, Gone With the Wind is a stunningly introspective piece for its time full of feminist ideals as well as themes of equality and ridiculous nature of society itself. It’s a story of a tenacious character and everlasting faith in yourself and it was controversial in the 30s when it was first published. The story itself continued it’s controversial reputation when Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar for her portrayal of the strong black woman that mentors Scarlett O’Hara throughout the course of the story. She was the first African-American to win an Oscar, and though segregation during that time was still absurdly powerful, she accepted the award with grace. She was forced to sit at the back of the audience instead of with the rest of the cast and was certainly the subject of much ridicule but faced the issue with her chin up and pride.
Forming the Curriculum Around Christian Academy Ideas
How does that lend to a curriculum? Have you read Gone With the Wind? It’s a meaty endeavor with most copies ringing in at somewhere past 1000 pages. It would take at least a whole summer to read, but that would be a summer full of introspection about the nature of youth prompted by Scarlett’s missteps. It’d be a summer full of reflection about the definition of race and how racism has changed and evolved over time. Capitalize on this piece of accessible history in town and turn a fun reading project into something you can touch and analyze.
Contact Resurrection Christian School
As educators, we take immense joy in finding historical relevance in the everyday things that you can ride your bike past on a day to day basis and reach out and touch. The lessons of history are more important today, in this tumultuous and confusing time, perhaps more than they ever have been. History has a knack for being uncannily timely and the Hattie McDaniels and her story are just an example of that. Contact us to start your private school journey with your child to open more doors for them and help us create the scholars of tomorrow. We’re eager to hear from you soon.