Kids today know nothing. I wanted to put my head as far through a wall as I possibly could after today's English classes. I truly fear for the future of not just our country, but the human race. We did a lesson on Vietnam era music today and how it affected the attitudes of the country and we compared those attitudes to the soldiers in our book. No one in the classes had ever heard of CCR, Springsteen, or Bob Dylan. The only song I played they had heard of was "War", and that is only because of the movie Rush Hour. They really struggled to see how music can influence a whole culture, but I'm sure that is due to the crap music that is out now. After we analyzed the lyrics and they understood what was being said, they started to see how music influenced the thoughts of the society at the time, yet they still struggled to see how music could be so powerful to influence cultural change.
For creative writing, I gave them a day to work on their short stories.
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