'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
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.
Maybe you could find another book from that era and contrast the treacly moral tone and two-dimensional characters?
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.
Hi Jen! Happy new year!
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?
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.
Sorry to hear that, connie. I got the hat, though. Thanks!
In both Tom Sawyer and White Fang, you're talking about the tension between license and civilization that was a common theme as Americans saw the end of the frontier.
I got the hat, though. Thanks
Yay!
It's annoying to have to get professors to say things that I already fucking know, just to make it sound more like news. Stupid journalism.
Welcome to one of the reasons I had trouble with Journalism when I was young and arrogant.
But now I'm older and arrogant, and wish I had had the self-esteem to at least fricken keep applying for work in journalism until I got a position *somewhere.*
I could be a burnt-out cynic scoffing at my degree right now.
Oh wait.