Great parenting discussion today!
On Thursday I will open the floor to talk about any topics that you want to discuss regarding Davita's Harp, and then we'll finish our Davita discussions with two or three days centered on the topic of war since that topic is central to Davita and life in general. And that's one reason to read, isn't it? To learn about life.
During a variety of classroom and homework activities, we will analyze the causes and effects of war by examining a variety of genres. Specifically, we will study what can be learned about war from . . .
a novel, Davita's Harp
a speech, Eisenhower's farewell address to the citizens of the United States in 1961, both through video and a transcript, where Eisenhower warns the people about the military industrial complex
a painting, Picasso's Guernica where Pablo captures the horrors of that bombing incident featured in Davita's Harp
a poem, Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" where Owen, a WWI British Veteran, graphically portrays the horrors of being gassed, an experience that Jakob in Davita's Harp experienced
and a letter, Sigmund Freud's letter to Albert Einstein on the reasons why humanity has war
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