Something there is that doesn’t love a wall
 When Robert Frost wrote that good fences make good neighbors, surely he couldn’t fathom an era of National Guard troops constructing barbed wire ones on our southern border. With immigration legislation taking center stage in recent debates, the publication of The Line Between Us couldn’t be more timely. In characteristic style, Rethinking Schools’ (www.rethinkingschools. org ) Bill Bigelow, an Oregon high school teacher, offers thoughtful narratives about his own U.S.-Mexico relations curriculum.
Detailed lesson plans include a role-play set during the 19th century U.S.-Mexico war; the “The Transnational Capital Auction Game” to facilitate understanding of globalization; and border improvisations on topics like “Speak Spanish!” “Neighborhood organizing,” and “Water or jail.” Other resources include a Bill Clinton speech on NAFTA, poetry on hunger, and migrant-themed comics. The Line is a practical tool that shows how critical and creative inquiry by teachers and students leads to real learning, whether your students joined migrant rights’ demonstrations, think unauthorized migrants should be punished and deported, or don’t have any of these issues on their radar (yet).
—Rebecca L. Weber
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