Entry 3
Good afternoon, readers! In the last week, we’ve read through quite a bit of literature regarding the tumultuous transformative period experienced by the Chinese people’s culture in the early twentieth century. Stories like The Man of La Mancha and Diary of a Mad Man are clear examples of the theme I would like to emphasize. The disconnect between the old and the new. Alienation , the experience of isolation from a group to which you should belong. Teaching this topic to high school students could be quite easy or quite hard depending on the individual. Some teaching methods might require skilled oration, imagination, or a distinct understanding of one’s students and their friend groups. A good initial starting point would be a creative writing activity. Have the students dream of a world a thousand years in the future, what the people would be like, wha...