What's Happening in the Middle School?
Life as a Teacher on an Indian Reservation
For the fifth year in a row, Head of Upper School Liz Perry met with St. Luke’s 8th graders to share her experiences teaching Lakota students on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in the 1990s. This annual talk is part of the introduction to the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Middle School English teacher Jim Carroll shared, “The students receive important insights from a prominent member of their own community about Native American lives and education. When they see how Ms. Perry is still emotionally impacted by her time working at that Reservation school, their understanding of the issues and struggles that we encounter in the book is deepened, and their empathy for that segment of our society increases.”
St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 35 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Center for Leadership builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.
