2:38 PM Thu Oct 12 Back EDSE 150 Inquiry Ch 3 Welcome to Holland R.Sp.18.docx Name Points EDSE 150/501 - Ch 3 "Welcome to Holland" Inquiry Read "Welcome to Holland" by Emily Perl Kingsley or watch the video depicting the poem at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r15PuYoID94 about a parent's description of having a child with a disability. Answer the following questions. 1. What are the metaphors the poet uses to describe a parent/family with a child with a disability versus a parent/family without a child with a disability? 2. What is your reaction to reading this poem or watching this video with what you know about special education, families with a child with a disability and children with disabilities?......Or what is a reflective reaction based on the poem's content? 3. How could you use this poem to assist a parent who has come to you saying that they are struggling with having a child with a disability and how they feel at a loss and separated from everyone else because they have a child with a disability? What would your response be? 8 Dashboard 000 Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox ^ C 73% 2:39 PM Thu Oct 12 Back 7 EDSE 150 Inquiry Ch 3 Welcome to Holland R.Sp.18.docx Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills.... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things... about Holland. Dashboard Calendar 8 To Do Notifications Inbox C 72%