Todays class allowed me to realize some of the tough aspects to teaching social studies. When teaching history and analyzing events that happened decades ago, like the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, it’s hard to comprehend how similar acts like the burning of churches in Louisiana are happening today. My history teachers would always say to me and their other students that the reason why we are learning about these things that are in the past is so that we can see how our nation and world has formed and even learn from the nation’s past mistakes. But when I am a teacher, how can I tell my students that things that happened so long ago in the 1960s are still happening today in 2019? How will I be able to teach my students that history is studied so we can learn from our mistakes when the same mistakes are still being made around 60 years later – that is more than half a century! How are these events still happening?! It disheartens me that I will have to be the one who has to relay these revelations to my students. But, that also ties into next classes’ lesson on how to teach tough content to students, so maybe I will be able to gain some insight from that. But for right now, leaving class today, I was feeling curious and interested from the different techniques we learned about questioning but also feeling very frustrated and defeated.