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One of Clint Smith's first jobs out of college was as a teacher, high school English, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

It remains the most fun job I've ever had.

Like for me, sitting around and reading books with teenagers and like talking about literature

and watching them as they connected to their lives and connect their lives and the literature to one another's lives

and sort of triangulated to the sort of larger society, it's so invigorating.

But it was also really hard. It was hard because Clint was

young. Teenagers or teenagers. But it was also hard because of the books they were reading.

We read Knight every year by Ellie Vizel.

And it was the first time many of my students encountered stories of the Holocaust.

And we read it in the context of a sort of larger unit where we were reading first-person accounts of slavery.

We were reading first-person accounts of segregation.

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