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Strix - Jan 13, 2005 3:49:06 pm PST #4019 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I don't have a choice -- I gotta teach these. And if I'm not interested, how can I interest the kids?

Is there a modern version of Tom Sawyer? Or is it pure Americana nostalgia for a boyhood that is defunct?

Maybe I'll be more interested after I eat.

Strix - Jan 13, 2005 3:51:55 pm PST #4020 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I like Twain, but I'd prefer HF over TS. Or Connecticutt Yankee. Or a bunch of short stories.

I'm teaching 3 freshman classes.

Oh, and WS? Hand write it, but essay and personal statements need to be typed.

Scrappy - Jan 13, 2005 3:53:51 pm PST #4021 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Erin, I like TS because unlike a lot of childrens' books of that era, it celebrates impulse and freedom and ignoring convention. The kids do WAY more scary, dangerous, transgressive shit than kids today are allowed to do, and Twain captures how fun that is.

DavidS - Jan 13, 2005 3:55:18 pm PST #4022 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Is there a modern version of Tom Sawyer? Or is it pure Americana nostalgia for a boyhood that is defunct?

Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker got compared to Tom Sawyer. Albeit a post-apocalyptic, Joyce influenced Tom Sawyer.

erikaj - Jan 13, 2005 3:55:20 pm PST #4023 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Good thought there, Robin.

Strix - Jan 13, 2005 3:56:38 pm PST #4024 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hmm. Maybe I could go from that angle; compare and contrast. Maybe tie in an essay.

I'm also thinking about a book club approach to reading these books. My mentor teacher is a 30 year veteran, and I don't think he does a lot of interactive stuff. He's, well, mostly I think he likes the golf coach aspect of this job. But he's nice enough.

Scrappy - Jan 13, 2005 3:58:14 pm PST #4025 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Maybe you could find another book from that era and contrast the treacly moral tone and two-dimensional characters?

Jen - Jan 13, 2005 3:59:35 pm PST #4026 of 10002
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you

WindSparrow, you've gotta type it. For one thing, a lot of applications are scanned into documents once they get to the Admissions department using OCR and passed around that way--I'm pretty sure handwritten documents won't work with OCR.

Sean K - Jan 13, 2005 4:02:12 pm PST #4027 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Hi Jen! Happy new year!

Steph L. - Jan 13, 2005 4:02:14 pm PST #4028 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Erin, is there some nifty non-class-discussion thing you could do? When I was a senior in H.S. and we read Hamlet, our teacher had us each pick a quote from it, and put it on a t-shirt, with some sort of illustration, and then got permission for us to wear the t-shirts all day (it was a Catholic school, and we wore uniforms). We loved it. Granted, we were the honors class and therefore HUGE geeks, but still.

Maybe something like that?

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