Hopefully you have all had the weekend to calm down after the heated and terrific class discussion we had last day. It's easy to see how Parliament or the UN can have trouble making decisions or coming to agreement on various issues when our class can have such differing views on one issue. Also, it occurs to me that our conversation was good, but there is something questionable about the privileged few deciding what part of their relatively enormous wealth to share with the less fortunate. Do you see what I mean? For the conversation to be more meaningful and authentic, it would be much better to have the voices of those in need balancing our own. Maybe I'll hear from you on this point next day; I'm guessing not everyone agrees with me.
Anyway, for homework by Tuesday, please read two of the essays in one of the sections we have not studied during the course. Remember that you need to have read one central essay and one other major essay from the chapter.
Hopefully that all makes sense. We will look at Kiva on Tuesday, and discuss The Things They Carried some more. By the way, I know some of you have read the whole book already, but just to say, it is so well-written! I was reading over On the Rainy River, and it is hard to find any single sentence that is not incredible and loaded with meaning. It is so gripping and perfect - try to appreciate the genius while you read!
See you Tuesday.
No comments:
Post a Comment