Injustice in a Cruel World

Hey guys!

This weeks theme is injustice!

INJUSTICE: The Lack of fairness or justice.

The book Requiem by Anna Akhmatova best displays this injustice. The main character has a feeling of imprisonment or lifelessness even though she is outside the prison bars. This is because her family was taken from her and imprisoned during Stalin's reign of terror. These characters have their own type of injustice whether it happens directly to them or indirectly.

How this topic could be translated into teaching it to high school students is you could have them think of an injustice they have ever experienced. After reading the texts have the students compare and contrast their experiences of injustice versus the characters. It could be in essay form or a simple bubble map. The point would be to put the students in the shoes of the characters.

The use of popular culture could be used to engage the students in the theme. Many movies made have all types of injustice. You could have them watch The Hunger Games where Katniss, the main character, suffers an injustice due to the fact that she is put into the Hunger Games.

There could be a class discussion on the injustices in the movies and world in general and relate them to the texts. You want the students as engaged as possible. To have them digging into the minds of the characters and feeling those same emotions would help them generate ideas and identify the themes throughout the stories.

Injustice is a theme that could be used in many different way and not one student will identify with it in the same way. It allows for honest and real discussion to be held as well as be made as a huge learning experience for everyone. After all, we all experience injustice in our lives all the time.

That's all for today!

Lily

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