Now, you acknowledge me?!

So Mrs. C, who did not want me to be involved in anyway in her class, decided to impart some advice to me today. She said that I will be doing a ton of reading in the beginning. She said that I need to create a curriculum map and carefully decide the content I need to cover. She was debating whether to cover the Armenian genocide, but then said, well "What about all the other genocides?" It could lend itself to a comparative study of modern genocide which would be interesting, but it make the students depressed. You don't want your teaching to be depressing. She might have made a good point about sheltering the students from some of the evil in the world. I would want to give them enough evil to make them angry and want to take action, but not so much that they become depressed themselves. Great point I never fully considered.