Just in case some of you thought my coconut story from yesterday was completely fictional, I have pictorial proof. See below. (Sound random? We were reading A Long Way Gone on Monday morning, and the narrator spoke about eating coconuts. Having tried to break one open with friends JUST THE NIGHT BEFORE - I decided to weigh in on the difficulties of coconut eating).
Anyways, back to the matter at hand. In class today we continued reading ALWG, 
then took a look at other literature-with-a-cause. We read Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est." We paired this with a side of Picasso's "Guernica," compliments of the Toronto Star and its article about the UN covering the famous image during the announcement that the US would invade Iraq back in 2003. If they were really afraid that the image would inspire anti-war sentiments simply from its presence in the room, then talk about the power of the paint brush! IE the artist's message, IE all artists, writers, etc. Go literature! We followed this up with a nice course of Walt Whitman and his "Song of Myself," which helped us write our own "Name" poems. This is a lesson that will be continued later this week. After the interim we concluded with some nice vocabulary and our reading of the play Lysistrata. Wow I'm tired! Too bad raw coconut milk, as I so bitterly discovered, is sour and gross. I guess it's "pass the orange juice" for my evening refreshment.
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