My favorite part of this entire lecture was when she said "the river doesn't care about war or administrative borders, it only cares about the land the takes care of it” and this really got me thinking about climate justice and how so many 4th graders are passionate about our earth. I think it would be really interesting to discuss how once the colonizers began altering the river things changed with not only agriculture and climate, but with culture and the financial wellbeing of the people in that area. 

This content has a direct connection with the book i'm reading with 8 of my students right now, The Red Pencil. I plan to show that reading group the map that she shows early in the lecture. 

Another powerful connection I made was to her point about the fact that Nubia is spoken about as a Black imaginary and not enough people know that Nubia is real land with real history. Here in Boston, we have an area of Roxbury known as "Nubian Square" and many of my students live there. I think it could be really powerful to research this area of our city with my students and connect make connections back to the African Nubian land.