Today was my first day working at the Foote School in New Haven. Today was full of figuring out schedules, familiarizing myself with classrooms as well as teachers. I spent the majority of the day sitting in on classes, attempting to figure out the dynamic, as well as how I can be useful to the students and teachers. Something that was particularly interesting to me was sitting in on a seventh grade humanities class, usually the class is spent half english and the other half history. However, today they spent the majority of the time talking about history. The topic was the OJ Simpson case, and I thought it was really interesting how this is something that is taught in classrooms now. I did not have very much prior knowledge about the case, but the conversations that were had in class were quite interesting and thought provoking. Based off of what I did today, I am really looking forward to the next couple of weeks.

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