FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Lindsay Schneider is in her 13th year as an educator, but her Honors English class at Reagan High School in Pfafftown looks different this year.
“I’m an English teacher, and we teach ‘Night’ to our sophomores. … That is something all sophomores read in Winston-Salem,” Schneider said. “And I think, for obvious reasons, I approached it as an English teacher. We would look through and analyze how his tone shifted, how the character of Elie Wiesel had grown throughout the book.”
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But following her eight-day intensive course on the Holocaust in Poland in June, Schneider is diving in even deeper with her students this year.
“Even students who are interested miss the foundational pieces sometimes. They can tell you Jews were killed during the Holocaust, but a lot of times, it stops there, or it stops with ‘Hitler was bad.’” Schneider said. “The power of starting at the beginning and making sure we’re not missing these foundational blocks that I think I was missing until the trip: what does it mean to be Jewish? What did antisemitism look like before 1933?”…