Maybe I will instead do something about the coming of age, the journey from childhood to adulthood, in terms of recognizing the world around you and its various beauties and cruelties. Hmmmmmm.
To Kill a Mockingbird. The Kite Runner. A Separate Peace. The Catcher in the Rye. All are such riveting, well-written books. I could include a New Yorker story about Salinger, written soon after he died this year. Hmmmmmmmmm.
If it was a six-week long session, we could likely get through two of these books: The Kite Runner and To Kill a Mockingbird would show hos children grow to see the cruelty of the world - and to accept it - in two very different countries, and in two very different timeframes. One (Afghanistan) is current - one (America) took place in the 1930s.
I could work in the following:
- Read reviews of both books upon their publishing, and have students respond to those reviews and write a review for each.
- Watch the movie for each in the classroom
- Study the language in TKAM, and discuss ways in which language has changed since the 1930s, specifically words and usages that were common then, but are considered unacceptable now
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