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My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others.- C. S. Lewis

Hello everyone!

I’m so excited to begin this journey with all of you. My name is Cole and I am a college student, studying to be an elementary teacher. To me, being a teacher means being a learner first. I love research and investigating new things. In order to be the best instructor I can be, I am always learning about new issues and concepts so that I can engage my students. I want to inspire the children I teach and guide them to love learning as much as I do.

I started this blog to record my research on a new topic. While I am writing this for course credit, I chose this topic because it matters. To me and to the world. And increasingly more so, to children. The topic? Immigration. While it is something both controversial and confusing, it is something I want to learn more about. And, it is something that greatly affects our nation and our students, even down to elementary school. Also, it affects both the students immigrating here and the American children learning to accept them.

To pursue this project, I will be reading Refugee by Alan Gratz. This book gives an account of three young refugees. The children each have their own setting and regime that they are fleeing. Josef lives in Nazi Germany in 1939. Isabel lives in Castro’s Cuba in 1994. And Mahmoud lives in rioting Syria in 2015. Each post is a summary of one of these children’s stories. Integrated within the summaries, I have placed hyperlinks to informational articles about the historical context in which the stories take place. This book will allow me to investigate immigration through the years and develop a perspective that will be applicable for today. 

I’m excited for you to join me on this journey. I hope you will learn as much as I will! Mostly, I hope you will be inspired to find a new perspective on this difficult topic and take a look through someone else’s eyes.