Saturday, April 29, 2006
The Kids Are All Right
This week in class we discussed William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
We read "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" and talked about symbolism, looking at Blake's illustrations for his work. And because every high school junior needs a mental break once in a while, I asked them to team up and draw their own parallel symbols of innocence and experience.
One of the teams drew a cow on the "innocence" side of their paper, and for "experience," they drew a steak.
Heh. ¶ 11:26 PM
We read "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" and talked about symbolism, looking at Blake's illustrations for his work. And because every high school junior needs a mental break once in a while, I asked them to team up and draw their own parallel symbols of innocence and experience.
One of the teams drew a cow on the "innocence" side of their paper, and for "experience," they drew a steak.
Heh. ¶ 11:26 PM
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It's that sort of thing that makes teaching worth it, isn't it?
I once had a kid tell me that William Shakespeare had some "mad skills", it enabled me to teach for another year.
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I once had a kid tell me that William Shakespeare had some "mad skills", it enabled me to teach for another year.
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