suhayma

Just wanted to say, that as a World Literature and World History teacher, I appreciate this question. The first time I taught a Holocaust unit (On the novel NIGHT), I was amazed that the majority of my class of 10th graders didn't know what the Holocaust was. They would ask me several times through our reading if it was really a true story.

It has been my favorite unit to teach because at the end of it, I feel as if my class has grown together, and that my students have grown as individuals. It's a heavy part of our history to teach, but it MUST be taught, and I always put my very best into it every year because I do not want anyone to ever forget what happened then.

What is your list of "no-no" words that you just won't use in erotica, and why? What are your favorites and why?

I had two c-sections. The time it takes for your guts to settle in their new places is a very strange time and strange feeling. I imagine this happens to all pregnant women after they have their babies in some for or another, but especially for c-section moms who usually have their uterus and intestines removed for a moment while they are suturing, examining and repositioning your organs.

In Baltimore. It's really hard to believe, but the Holocaust is so far removed from that generation that they just don't get it. I try to tell them that it happened very recently as far as the span of history is concerned, but they see it as something that happened so long ago that it's not relevant to them.

I am always shocked, every year, when I start this unit and most of them have no idea what the Holocaust was. They know who Hitler was, if only in name, but they can't put the pieces together.

Unless you are the chicken in Moana.