Freedom and Sorrow chp7/ Holland Again chp8: Finally the family is free they have experienced their liberation they are no longer trapped by the Germans. But they are emotionally, and physically shadows of their former selves. While reading this I recalled how I have heard stories of liberated captives eating themselves to death or being fed to death. The liberated people's stomachs were shrunk but the stomach that resided in their hearts and their brain. However I have never heard such an account of watching people eat themselves to death it was so depression., And on top of that for typhus to take Marion's father now after all they have been through was devastating news. The only good part was that there was the prospect that the remaining family could find salvation in continuing the initial plans that they wanted to accomplish prior to their capture. The hardship that Ruth must have gone through to live apart from her children to insure a better future was a heart touching task.
Keene chp 6 Renaissance of Understanding:
This was my favorite chapter of Keene's thus far, the ideal that we need to encourage a more Renaissance feel in our classrooms is something that I connect with immediately. Giving students a chance to be more independent inquiry based learners is something I try to instill in all of my lessons. I feel that students learn much better when they have freedom. How Keene was able to attach that sense of freedom and exploration into how students read and their literacy skills was seamless. I really connected with the idea of using varied genres and text to accomplish different tasks. This idea reminded of how we had discussions about mentor texts a few classes ago.
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