Mary Towles
I have only been in North Carolina for about a year and a half. I previously lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and moved here two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. I was a middle school language arts teacher at D’Iberville (Biloxi) Middle School, and my school was flooded with eight feet of water, causing all of the teachers to lose everything they had gathered for their teaching career. My older son lives in this area, and I came up here with my granddaughter initially to just get away for a few months. During my first few weeks, I received an offer to work at an elementary school here in North Carolina, and since I’ve always loved vacationing in North Carolina, I decided to make a temporary move to see how things worked out. I’ve since permanently moved here and enjoy it very much. I do miss my family left in Mississippi, but I call them several days a week and we visit back and forth.
As far as teaching this age group, I find it more of a challenge than teaching middle school, but I have attempted to take every course I can to learn about the subjects I am now teaching and the cultural difference of the students.
Resources created by Mary Towles
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- A walk of betrayal: The Trail of Tears
- In this lesson plan for fourth and fifth grades, students will read various resources and watch videos about the Cherokee. They will trace the history of the Cherokee, discuss the outcomes of the impact of the white man, and determine how that intrusion led the Cherokee to the Trail of Tears. The students will examine the survival of the Cherokee and explore their accomplishments into the 21st century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Social Studies)
- By Mary Towles.
