I Was Wrong! · Friday December 8, 2006 by Abbie
I was wrong about Ram needing some chill out time yesterday after the home ed meeting on Wednesday. This morning he woke up early with a sore throat! So yesterday he was in default mode because he was coming down with something not because he was stressed out from to much socialisation!
Mind you, he still hasn’t been able to tell me why he was so angry when we left the home ed meeting.
Today again he has been watching a lot of old video tapes. But they weren’t all the usual cartoons. He watched some films that have strong political statements. He watched Animal Farm first. We watched it originally last year, then we read the book, and now he has watched it again. I have just asked him if he learned anything from watching it today, and he said that he learned that it is partly different from the book. The ending is different!
He then watched a very old film of Gulliver’s Travels. We have read that book too. In fact we read the original, which was annotated so that people today would understand the political climate that it was written in. But the film not only visits only three worlds but much of the political parody is lost. Still, I think that it is important that Ram goes back to these things and reinforces what he has previously learned, rather than doing it once and then forgetting it.
We also watched our weekly DVD rental which was called ‘Just Ask for Diamond’. It is based on Anthony Horowitz’s book, The Falcon’s Malteser, the first in the Diamond Brothers series.
There are not many contemporary children’s authors that we really like, but Horowitz is one of them. We started with Alex Rider and then went on to read everything we could find! Again, Ram was able to compare the book with the film. It was nice to see a film that is faithful to the book, but even then Ram’s Aspie mind actually noticed some lines which were incomplete or missing!
Since he was ill today, that is still quite a lot of learning still going on!
I wish it was early to bed for us tonight, as neither of us slept well, but we will have to stay up to watch The Simpsons. I wish they didn’t have it on so late on a Friday. Not because it is past Ram’s bedtime, but because it is past mine!
