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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."
We read a book called The Bible as Literature that was fairly handy for nutshell education of those of us raised in unchurched homes.
I really, really need to get that, because my interaction with the Bible has been pretty minimal. Being raised by an aggressively lapsed Catholic will do that.
Gloria Vanderbilt is alive?
Now I'm not certain which is more disturbing:
the prospect that Vanderbilt is writing erotica OR
the prospect that zombie Vanderbilt is writing erotica
Gloria Vanderbilt is alive?
Apparently. And still squicking out poor Anderson with tales of her sexual exploits.
I'm really liking the notion of zombie Vanderbilt writing erotica. I think that's a fabulous notion.
I'm really liking the notion of zombie Vanderbilt writing erotica. I think that's a fabulous notion.
Awww. Anderson Cooper just curled up in a whimpering fetal ball, and he doesn't even know why.
I just finished Death's Daughter, by Amber Benson.
le nubian, thanks for the amazon links! that's PRECISELY what my students could use. Not the Bible, but really a reader of select passages of the Bible.
And if none of those things happened and I still didn't get the reference (and I'm sure that has happened) it probably wasn't that important.
Unless, of course, you are working with a group of kids reading "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock," who have no idea who Lazarus is and it shows up as one of the essays on the AP exam they have paid $80+ to take. Then it sort of is that important.
(Granted, I hate Prufrock and many of them loved it because they did love the untangling of the allusions).
Or, a better example is that my students had no idea who the sirens are because Greek Mythology is no longer part of the CA Standards for English (I think for history they are, but in 6th grade). So they don't read the Odyssey anymore and Clash of the Titans has not been on constant replay on TNT for 10 years. When they took an exam (from the 90s) that asked them to compare Homer's sirens to Atwood's version, they flailed. So we did a 3 hour thing on mythology to cover most of the basics.
The gaps can be important. Unfortunately, I never know what gaps appear nor do I know what is on this year's test.