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01/14/05
Man In Black
I mentioned once already that I bought some Johnny Cash CDs while in St. Louis for Christmas. Today I shared some lyrics with my English class that I thought go well with Walt Whitman's I Sit and Look Out. These words from Johnny Cash's Man In Black become more powerful every time I hear them:
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believin' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believin' that we all were on their side.
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Comment from: Ellen [Visitor]
How did the students respond to your lesson, Kyle? My experience is that students tend to like Walt Whitman. Did they like the song? Did they see the connections?
01/15/05 @ 13:38
Comment from: Kyle [Visitor] · http://kyle.brendoman.com
I think students generally liked Johnny Cash more than they liked Walt Whitman. I didn't bring in the song until a couple of days after they read the poem (I didn't think of it until after the fact), but some of them still made the connection. In the future I'll probably introduce them at the same time.
On a side note, I'm going to have to be especially careful about what I say about teaching. One of my students told me she Googled my name and found my blog!
01/16/05 @ 16:35
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