American Teenagers

The 10th graders are reading Persepolis in English class, but they don't have their own copies of the book yet. Since they are apparently studying about Iran in world history class, I've been working on their background knowledge and getting them geared up to think about how the events of the 1979 revolution compare with things they've actually heard of--or how different their circumstances are from a typical Persian teenager. When they got done with their science homework, we had a discussion on typical teenage past times (so we could compare them with the interests of teens in Iran), and started thinking about how the Fundamentalist regime resembles other types of facism that they are more familiar with.

This is one of the more interesting topics they've had since I've known them. It oughta make for some interesting discussion once they start actually reading the book.