6th Hour Padlet 1/30 by Matthew Swastek https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2017-01-30 16:32:06 UTC 2025-11-14 22:03:18 UTC hello@padlet.com The History Teacher- Jake Lefkofsky, Megan O'Gorman, and Josie Pelton https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313759 1. He or she hides the truth in order to protect the students, which in the end hurts the students more than it helps them. 

2. It shows that the teacher is trying to protect the students because they are so young. In the poem it shows how young the students are because it references that they still play on the playground. He tries to save their innocence. 

3. "The children would leave his classroom
for the playground to torment the weak" This is from the fifth stanza and shows how the speaker believes that the students are innocent but truly they are not because they are beating up the smart kids and tormenting the weak kids on the playground which shows that they are not completely innocent. 

4. We think that is is more like a question than an argument, because the text doesn't take a position and doesn't really show two different sides of an issue. The question is something along the lines of is it ethical for the teacher to be giving students inaccurate information in order to protect them?  

5. We think that it is wrong for the history teacher to be giving inaccurate information to the students because at some point the students need to learn the truth about our cruel world. Protection becomes when you leave out more than fifty percent of the true information. The facts become so twisted that it is a warped reality more than a true reality. The matter of degree effects whether it is right or wrong also the age of the students and their maturity level. The intentions of the teacher are pure but they are perceived us to be morally wrong. The teacher might tell the students that the pilots couldn't fly the plane or something so far from the truth that it is a blatant lie. ]]> 2017-01-30 17:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313759 Max, Cameron, Josh, Ellen group 4 ellenburke48 https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313795 1. he was shielding the students from the truth instead of being honest 

2. Since the children did not learn the truth about history, they would go out and torment other children on the playground because of their ignorance. 

3. The view is a little bit critical of the teacher because he is creating a utopian attitude about the world. An example found in the text is  "he walked home
past flower beds and white picket fences"

4. the poem asks a question because it causes readers to ask questions about the history teacher's intentions. 

5. We do not like the history teacher because of his lack of honesty. Protection becomes lying when the children are old enough to distinguish between the two. We think the teacher would say that 911 was caused by un microwave catching on fire inside of the world trade center. ]]> 2017-01-30 17:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313795 Question Answers: (Max Lessins, Mia Morelli, Ethan Neuvirth) https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313807 1)He is taking advantage of the students innocence and ignorance. 
2)Teacher does not understand kids are inherently mean and not affected by violence.
3)He is very passive critical of the history teacher. "The children would leave his classroom
for the playground to torment the weak
and the smart,
mussing up their hair and breaking their glasses,

while he gathered up his notes and walked home
past flower beds and white picket fences,
wondering if they would believe that soldiers
in the Boer War told long, rambling stories
designed to make the enemy nod off.

4) The argument is the interpretation of history but this teacher thinks the children are too innocent to understand and comprehend the true when in fact they can.

5) The teacher is trying to do good by his kids but he does realize that the kids are smarter than he thinks and he would delude what really happened on 9/11. He would try to protect their brains from the truth when in fact he is making the children ignorant and will later believe this information when in fact it is false.

]]> 2017-01-30 17:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313807 Group #3 Questions https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313925 1) The History teacher is trying create a barrier between students and the real world, creating a different viewpoint on society. This give students a false impression on what is going on in the world,  thinking that everything is going well when it really isn’t.

2) Because of the children's’ ignorance of history, they went outside and tormented other children.

3) The speaker's attitude toward the history teacher is condescending because he is shielding the students from the truth and teaching the students that hiding the truth is acceptable and also how the teacher wonders himself if even the students would believe the stories he told them. There are examples of this in the first and last paragraphs.

4) The poem does not make an argument in the sense that it does not take a solid position. It instead seems to ask the question: Is shielding children from the truth to protect them now more important than informing them now to protect the future? This can be inferred from the title itself, The History Teacher. The role of a history teacher is to be an informer that teaches children about the past so that it’s mistakes are not repeated in the future, however after the poem analyzes a teacher that betrays this role and instead becomes a protector of innocence which calls into question which role is more important.

5) The way the teacher teaches events of history is a metaphor for the problem of the “safe-space society” that we have built in the last few generations. We as a society have taken to sheltering and hiding the ugly truth of our ancestors actions from our youth as a way to keep them from corruption. The problem with doing this is that if we don't learn from our ancestors and build off of their mistakes then we will never progress forward as a society. It can be assumed that, if the poem were to continue and speak to the history teacher explaining the terrorist attacks of September 11th, that he would once again come up with an excuse or a lie to tell to his students in some cruel way to shelter them from the truth. Although his intentions good in not wanting his students to see the dark realities of the world, ultimately this would most likely greatly hinder the students as they would be unprepared to handle the realities of the world and its struggles. This poem can be related specifically to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as it represents the same “safe-space society” which ultimately led to the stagnation of society's growth and led to the development of a populous entirely made of childlike developed minds.]]> 2017-01-30 17:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150313925 Group 1 Chris, Jenny, Catlin, Tyler sauer_christopher00 https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150314008 1. He "sugar coated" the reality of what truly happened in history. He wanted to "protect their innocence"
 2. When the kids were at recess they would tourment the other kids and break their glasses. This is the exact opposite of what the teacher had intended for them. 
3. "while he gathered up his notes and walked home
past flower beds and white picket fences,
wondering if they would believe that soldiers
in the Boer War told long, rambling stories
designed to make the enemy nod off." The speaker seems skeptical to the teachers methods. 
4. We think that it is leaning towards a question  because its almost as if it asks if this is the right way to teach. 
5. We think that the history teacher in a way wants to believe what he is teaching to the kids. The line "while he gathered up his notes and walked home
past flower beds and white picket fences," shows that the teacher is in his own little world of peace. We think that the teacher would portray the events of 9/11 as a plane that didn't know where it was going. ]]> 2017-01-30 17:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mswastek/cdtk5jre4fmj/wish/150314008