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BLUESONG GUIDE DESCRIPTION
P.O.D.’s 2001 hit “Youth of A Nation” is a powerful tale told from the point of view of an adolescent, in heaven, who has passed away in a Columbine-like shooting. The Mindblue study guide explores the issues of alienation and the response of youth to feelings of disconnectedness with the world around them. The Outsiders, Lovely Bones or Give A Boy A Gun are all wonderful complimentary texts for the study guide, but the song stands alone as a profound response to the wave of hopelessness many felt in the wake of Columbine.
Mindblue’s differentiated lesson plan is filled with multi-disciplinary activities that explore the depiction of childhood in children’s books, theories on the afterlife and movies like the Lindsay Lohan hit Mean Girls.
THEMES/SUBJECTS
Death
Man Vs. Man
School Violence
Disillusionment
Teen Alienation
Columbine Shootings
LIT TERMS
Point of View
LITERATURE LINKS
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Give A Boy A Gun - Todd Strasser
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
Remembering the Good Times – Richard Peck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
After the First Death – Robert Cormier
Ordinary People – Judith Guest
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