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.
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
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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.
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?
Connie Neil - Jan 13, 2005 4:03:22 pm PST #4029 of 10002
brillig
I like "White Fang" because it has a happy ending, and I love the whole part of White Fang in California. Especially the part where his master gives him permission to take off after the dogs that have been tormenting him.
I'm shallow.
Hubby had his spine looked at today. Looks like more surgery, as one of the disks is definitely blown and is causing the grief in his legs. Sigh. If we can get it done quickly, he could be back in shape by spring. Just in time for heart attack season, but we think we've got a lock on that due to the drug interactions. But I'm trying not even to think things like "The worst is behind us" and all that, because I can think of shitloads of worse things.
Sean K - Jan 13, 2005 4:04:21 pm PST #4030 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sorry to hear that, connie. I got the hat, though. Thanks!