So I've decided to work on one theme: Journey.
Life is a journey. Sometimes God, Providence (or whatever one would choose to call it, depending on the individual's beliefs) would play a cruel joke. Or perhaps its a beautiful fairy dream after all. Irregardless, how do we as teachers to be try to incoporate the theme of a journey to our students? What are the messages that we should be conveying? Are they of a moralist stand? Are they of a humanist stand? Or there is something else alltogether that we all ought to look out for?
I've begun selecting 4 novels. They're "The Little Prince", "The Alchemist" , "The Pilgrimage" and "The Zahir".
They all speak from 4 different individuals: A child, An adolescent, A Youth, An adult.
The question now poses itself: How do I play this game? For the moment, I have no suitable cards yet. Let's see how the situation plays itself out.
Wait. Why these few texts? Why not others? Surely there are better materials, like Marco Polo's travels, or Journey to the West. But I'm not too concerned. I'm concerned with an issue that has bugged me since the first day I did my position paper; how do I play my cards right?
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