[文學/英語教學] 英美文學課/戰爭與和平/“This is the War to End all Wars": Reflection on War, Peace and Everything Within

此為提早寫好，但恰巧並未用上的課綱，因而還是轉貼到個人網誌，與各位分享。

此次課綱的目的，便是回應充滿了戰爭的世界：不管是個人的、內心的、小寫的戰爭，或是歷史的、全球的、大寫的戰爭，都會是這次課綱關心的主題。

相較於其他直接切入戰爭、和平的課程，此次課綱考量了以下幾點，使高中生參與度、認同度提高：

• 首週選讀Tiktok爆紅影片，一位豆芽菜工廠女工詢問自己是誰，促使學生思考生命之不必然
• 詩作盡量輕薄短小，使讀者便於接近
• 穿插動態與紀錄片，避免高中生因大量閱讀而過份疲勞
• 不忘少數族裔、多元族群，選讀Asian American、韓國、台灣相關材料，關照最為靠近的地緣、歷史與亞際關係

以下為我在2022，對於戰爭、和平的一些想法！歡迎大家指教。

“This is the War to End all Wars": Reflection on War, Peace and Everything Within

終局之戰？戰爭、和平、與其相關之反思

Instructor: Shelly Shih

Week1: Normal People: "Where am I? Who am I? Who did I come to be here?"

New Media: Tik Tok- There is no beginning and there's no end

https://bit.ly/3N3RuMa

Poem: Pablo Neruda. “I’m Explaining a Few Things.”

https://genius.com/Pablo-neruda-im-explaining-a-few-things-annotated

Week2: Humanity: “Men first, and subjects afterward”

Poem: William Butler Yeats. On being asked for a War Poem.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57313/on-being-asked-for-a-war-poem

Column and Philosophy: Nietzsche’s Eternal Return: Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/nietzsches-eternal-return

Week3: Zoomed in: “All actual heroes are essential men and all men possible heroes”

Documentary: Every Face has a Name

https://www.kktv.me/play/09000268010001

(Excerpt) Script: The Diary of Ann’s Frank https://www.frontiercsd.org/cms/lib/NY19000265/Centricity/Domain/279/Diary%20of%20Anne%20Frank.pdf

Week4: Toxic silence: “First they came……and I didn’t speak up—”

Poem/Video: Alina Zievakova recites a poem about Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZi-Z70fiE8

Podcast & Review: 'Death And The Penguin' Captures Post-Soviet Reality. NPR

https://www.npr.org/2012/04/24/150972348/death-and-the-penguin-captures-post-soviet-reality

Week5: Dilemma: A Good Man is Hard to Find

Theater: The Party Theater. The White Storyteller.（同黨劇團，白色說書人）

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgbVHeTeVYo

Review: Ha Jin’s ‘A Song Everlasting,’ Chinese immigration, and pursuit of freedom

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/books/review/song-everlasting-ha-jin.html

Week6: Community: People help the People

(Excerpt) Script: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

https://figzoi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-if-enuf.pdf

Musical and Movie: Rent. “Will I?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6AtkTXY8ls

Week7: On acceptance: “We must imagine Sisuphus happy”

(Excerpt) Publication and Psychology : Viktor Frankl. Man’s Search for Meaning

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/3403095/mod_resource/content/1/56ViktorFrankl_Mans%20Search.pdf

Review: Han Gang’s ‘Human Act’ and Gwangju Uprising in South Korea:

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/21/509375755/human-acts-tries-to-reconcile-bloody-human-impulses

Week8: Agency: “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul"

Poem: Night Herons. Amy Gerstler. (2022)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/night-herons

New Media: Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile. Big Think. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-or_D-qNqM

Week9:

Office Hour

Week10:

Final presentation