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Batman vs Life of Pi
Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi and Christopher Nolan’s (Batman) Dark Knight film trilogy explore the way young men use an animal persona to cope with the anger, rage, fear and violence of traumatic experiences of both a physical and mental nature. The central characters Piscine Patel and Bruce Wayne adopt the symbolic facades of…
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Jukebox Journal – Life of Pi
In order to provide a creative task that strengthens understanding of a text’s themes and to allow students to express themselves in relation to a text, I like to use the Jukebox Journal. Whether it is a quick task in a lesson or an ongoing project, the Jukebox Journal requires students to select popular music…