Description …Anyone wishing to teach this literature will be helped enormously by Splinters of the Sun. In it, Staley picks key authors and works and explores them through the windows of history, culture, biography and literary content and style. It is in many ways like walking through a park where the trees are stories planted by authors of genius. I believe that lovers of literature have good reason to rejoice at the coming of this book. — Waldorf Books Master teacher Betty Staley brings us into the world of the Waldorf twelfth grader through the Russian Literature main lesson. She touches upon Akhmatova, Dostoyevsky, Pasternak, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Sakharov, giving biographical glimpses and citing significant passages from their writings. The history, geography, religion, and myths of Russia are also considered. The particular developmentally recognized qualities of a student at this stage of his/her life stand as a backdrop to the content and show the purpose of studying about the Russian soul at this particular time.
