A friend of mine got to teach an elective early on, and she did Science Fiction -- using Frankenstein and all kinds of other stuff. I thought that sounded like fun, but then we'd had no English electives at all in high school ourselves. Kristin's idea of teaching something you really love is the key, I think. I also love the idea of Madness in Literature -- besides Lear and the Yellow Wallpaper, you could even fit in Jane Eyre and the first Mrs. Rochester!
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:09 pm PDT #5518 of 10002
Because books.
msbelle - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:23 pm PDT #5519 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Our CEO is convinced that LAy skipped the country, until they show the body.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2006 12:39:44 pm PDT #5520 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If someone gay asks you out, what's wrong with "No, thank you"?
Because "No thank you" means "Please try again, but harder."
Whereas "I don't do your gender" means "No, really."
When I pretend to be gay to avoid a date it's not to spare anyone's feelings but my own. And that's to spare me the feeling of saying "no" seven million times. Not all guys who ask me out need or deserve that, but it does work better than "I'm involved."
bon bon - Jul 05, 2006 12:42:39 pm PDT #5521 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Our CEO is convinced that LAy skipped the country, until they show the body.
That's kind of nuts. He may have been sick for awhile; they hadn't filed an appeal yet.
Strix - Jul 05, 2006 12:50:08 pm PDT #5522 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I might add "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Awakening."
I will definitely do a poetry unit; Herrick, Herbert, Donne, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Rossetti, Yeats, Whitman, Millay, at first cull.
Hmm. Maybe "The Once and Future King."
Ginger - Jul 05, 2006 12:59:21 pm PDT #5523 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think I will teach the following novels: Haunting of Hill House, The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and The House of the Spirits.
I wouldn't pick The House of Mirth, but that's because my reaction to The House of Mirth was, "For God's sake, Lily, pull up your socks."
You could do a discussion of novels to film with your selection.
Sheryl - Jul 05, 2006 1:00:18 pm PDT #5524 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
G and I still split the bill when we go out to dinner, unless it's for a birthday or Valentine's day.
Hayden - Jul 05, 2006 1:01:09 pm PDT #5525 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
It's a short story by Charlotte Gilman. Creepy as hell. I love it too.
Yeah, that's right. My copy was a paperback called The Yellow Wallpaper and other stories, now that I think about it. Sort of like The Turn of the Screw, which always is a novel in my memory, but in reality is fairly short.
Trudy Booth - Jul 05, 2006 1:04:44 pm PDT #5526 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
That's kind of nuts. He may have been sick for awhile; they hadn't filed an appeal yet.
I don't think its THAT nuts.
He's richer than God. He's about to go to jail. He's reasonably old. And he's a big fat crooked liar.
If he could do it he quite possibly would.
JZ - Jul 05, 2006 1:38:31 pm PDT #5527 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
No sex in Bridge to Terabinthia, IIRC, but yes to the death.
This may be a horribly dorky suggestion, but what about Northanger Abbey? It's gothic *and* romantic *and* snarky as hell, and when I first read it at 19 I was completely awed by the fact that the author had started it at 17 and finished it when she was just my age. Really, Jane Austen's writing career started with teenagerly mockery of the badfic. Possibly that may hook some of them in?