My seventh grade class is studying Romeo and Juliet, and we are reading the play aloud in class. This allows me to preview scenes, stop and start to think about what is happening, attitudes, emotions, word play, allusions…. but there is no homework involved with this. I want them to come away with an appreciation…
Category: Reading Evangelist
Books I love
It is a truth universally acknowledged….
Today is the 200th anniversary if the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.. I came to Austen later in my reading life. I read Georgette Heyer (which was just autocorrected as Heyerdahl – and that makes perfect sense, but only later) and all kinds of modern Regency romances in high school in the early…
Banned (not Band) Books
I am happy to say that in my twelve years of teaching I have taught a number of books that have been challenged in other communities. I have even taught that explicit book Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. I once went to a seminar where the topic of the seminar became whether or not…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 