Sacred Reading at Brandon High: Recent Episodes
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Mrs. Huff and Roman use Lectio Divina to discuss how high school is like an ocean and you have to adapt and swim or sink.
Dr. Lindsey Dubbs and Nicole Huff use Lectio Divina to discus the quote, "The thing about being invisible is, you'd think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn't. It's the heaviest thing I've ever known.
Kelly Lindsey and Nicole Huff use Lectio Devina with the quote, "I love you Emmy, but you have no idea what it's like to be me."
Ms. Grant and Mrs. Huff have a conversation about fear and not letting fear make your decisions for you.
Hailey Cousin and Nicole Huff discuss layers of meaning as it relates to In the Wild Light with Lectio DiVina.
Mrs. Huff and Dr. Klein use Lectio Divina to discuss how Ari sees himself as reliable but unimaginative and his mother tells him to stop beating himself up.
Mrs. Huff and Angel use Lectio Divina to discuss the quote on page 70, "I wanted to tell her that happy was hard for me. I think she already knew it."
Mrs. Huff and Lauren Coleman use Lectio Divina to discuss what it means to have your life be "someone else's idea."
Mrs. Huff and Mr. Wiess use Lectio Divina to discuss the joy and pain of loosing someone you love but remembering their love.
Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Miro discuss why people feel the need to sacrifice to be worthy of grace.
Mrs. Huff and Mr. Thompson use Lectio Divina to talk through Pequena's decision to dress up for Rey.
Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Jackson use Lectio Divina to talk about grief and Donna Agostina's vision.
Mrs Huff and Ellios Rivera use Havruta to discuss Pequeña's pregnancy and how she "fell" off the bus.
The transition from high school to college is tough. Luckily we are here to face the issue and address the importance of mental health.
Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Boore use Lectio Divina to discuss the large river of emotion and empathy we all have beneath the surface.
Mrs. Huff talks through Lectio Divina with a quote about seeing and claiming all of a place or person, not just the good parts.
Ms. Craig and Mrs. Huff use Havruta to discuss the connections between Audre Lorde's "Litany for Survival" and Jay and Jun in the novel.
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. 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."
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 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 two senior girls discuss prejudice and the assumptions of others when people of any race gather in groups.
Mrs. Huff and Ms. Craig talk about the risk of standing up for what's right and what the personal cost may be.
Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Boore discuss issues of consent and ownership of your body and body images with a quote from page 176.
Mrs. Huff and Ms. Olson use Lectio Divina with the passage from page 90 that Erin narrates.
Mrs. Huff and Mrs. Spears use Lectio Divina with the quote from Rosina on page 20, "The this is...people don't want to hear something that'll make their lives more difficult, even if it's the truth. People hate having to change the way they see things. So instead of admitting the world is ugly, they s*** on the messenger for telling them about it."