When I meet former students, the class I hear most about — and even from students who never had the class — is what I did when I taught Watership Down by Richard Adams in “Fantasy.” The class wasn’t let into the room until exactly 6pm when they found they had to crawl under a black curtain into a black room and underneath all the tables in the room, which formed the “Honeycomb” where the rabbits lived. We conducted the whole class in the dark, eating carrots and lettuce. A remarkable discovery: When we discussed the book, the students who rarely spoke up in class talked freely in the dark – I could tell them by their voices!