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 NOTE: Our Study Guides are available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF download. After your purchase you will be directed to the page which contains your downloadable PDF file(s). Click to purchase the music that accompanies this study guide! "Youth of The Nation" by P.O.D 007$8.99 ABOUT US | STUDY GUIDES | IN THE NEWS | EVENTS | CONTACT | MINDBLUE.COM Copyright 2006 Mindblue, Inc.