Readings session 4

In reading the articles of, “Diary of an Evacuated School girl”, this reading told of how and what this school girl felt and did on a daily basis. This girl was a child and yet she had the wisdom to keep a diary and she wrote well. In this article, it’s amazing to read that even though the students are children ranging from 2nd to grade, they are taught the military ways. Such as dressing up in their Air-raid clothing, how to use a sword, how to throw hand grenades, hand to hand combat, just to name a few. Then they are also taught how to sew, and wash their own clothes and how to pound rice, these being survival skills for them. I thought this interesting because nowadays kids/students are not taught any of these things in school, and less in their own homes. Nowadays we have washers to wash clothes, we have restaurant to go eat at when one is hungry, and no one sews nowadays, if an item of clothing tears, it is tossed in the trash and a new item is purchased at a department store, or a store to that effect. My how life changes.
How I can use this story to help my students is simple life skills and basic survival skills this being another alternate curriculum standard.