Sacred Reading at Brandon High

Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Huff use Lectio Divina to discuss meeting people with empathy and trying to see both sides to a story.

Mrs. Huff and Mr. Thompson use Havruta to discuss the cultural implications of Jay not seeing an option besides college, even though he isn't excited about going.

Mrs. Huff and Mr. Weiss use Lectio Divina to explore what it means to want to stay in a place you know isn't "perfect."

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Boore use Harvuta to discuss charity and giving to those in need and how the aging can both change your priorities and harden you against those with need.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Moore use Lectio Divina to discuss why it is wrong to not see color.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Peterson talk about grief and loss.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Boore use Lectio Divina to look at the quote: "With spring break around the corner, and then only a few more weeks after that until graduation, the future is a wall of fog obscuring the horizon."

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Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Sparano use Lectio Divina to talk about Elwood's wish for kin in the Richmond dining room.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Fowler discuss what it feels like when you stop fighting and how you have to love yourself to keep fighting and to try to make your world better.

 Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Jackson use Lectio Divina to discuss how the boys say justice exists in theory.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Ellison used Lectio Divina to discuss the issues in these chapters.

 Mrs. Huff and Mr. Thompson use Havruta to discuss how the African American students call the shed where beatings occur "The White House" and how they see the name as fitting.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Boore use Lectio Divina to discuss the beginning of Chapter 3 where Elwood says that students learn to focus their attention in order to distract themselves from the curses written in the books from the white school.

Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Wilson use Lectio Divina with the quote "Nickel Boys were cheaper than a dime a dance and you got more for your money."  

 Mrs. Huff and Mr. Thompson discuss what happens to Erin from a parent's perspective.

Mrs. Huff and two senior girls discuss prejudice and the assumptions of others when people of any race gather in groups.