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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Sophia Brooks - Jun 15, 2011 9:46:34 am PDT #15267 of 28286

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am pretty sure I once spent a summer learning how to diagram sentences from my neighbor's schoolbook that was published in 1911. I actually love that book- she shared it with her brother, and both their names were written in it. It has a blue gingham cover sewed on it, and there was still homework tucked in it!

I love diagramming, but never learned it in school.

Jessica - Jun 15, 2011 9:47:40 am PDT #15268 of 28286

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!

Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2011 10:25:03 am PDT #15269 of 28286

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Still Life with Book.

Consuela - Jun 15, 2011 10:36:01 am PDT #15270 of 28286

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Pretty!

Toddson - Jun 15, 2011 12:26:41 pm PDT #15271 of 28286

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm hoping some of the fiction trends are running themselves into the ground. I was on a site and saw an ad for a book that starts off with "werewolf terrorists" and "a warlock cop". um, er, I don't think it's comedy

And, continuing the trend that started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - and continued with Jane Eyre, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Abraham Linkcoln and Queen Victoria as vampire/demon slayers, and Shakespeare Undead - someone has done one on Tom Sawyer; can't remember if it was zombies, vampires, or what.

Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2011 12:33:23 pm PDT #15272 of 28286

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I also saw The Meowmorphosis, in which the narrator wakes up as a kitten.

Volans - Jun 15, 2011 1:02:45 pm PDT #15273 of 28286

move out and draw fire

What Jessica said! I remember reading in some education journal that grammar and math use the same part of the brain, and I thought, "Well, duh."

But I've never been able to convince either mathy types nor wordy types of that.

Edited. DYAC.

Laga - Jun 15, 2011 1:08:07 pm PDT #15274 of 28286

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

That makes sense but I can see why people would be hard to convince. Grammar feels like it comes naturally to me whereas I have to work at math. I can't look at an equation and tell something is wrong (even if I'm not sure what it is) the way I can with a sentence.

Kat - Jun 15, 2011 1:09:29 pm PDT #15275 of 28286

"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!

And it makes it visual. It's not a great skill to teach kids in a world of limited time/maximum testing though.

Speaking of which, my students, age 17 and 18 (and occasionally 19 and one is 20) are having a problem with sentence boundaries. Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?

lisah - Jun 15, 2011 1:51:39 pm PDT #15276 of 28286

Punishingly Intricate

Fully 90% of errors are sentence boundaries. How the hell do I teach that crap?

Lots of reading out loud? (Signed, Can't really teach anyone anything so who am I to say?)

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