Kat, did you figure out your book list?
I'd still love to get together and talk, but I'm out of commission for a few more days (I was diagnosed with friggin' pneumonia today; no wonder I've felt like such crap). Maybe some time next week?
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
Pix - Apr 24, 2008 4:43:00 pm PDT #3419 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
sarameg - Apr 24, 2008 4:47:36 pm PDT #3420 of 10001
Sleep is good. Especially when dealing with babies.
Kat - Apr 24, 2008 4:51:48 pm PDT #3421 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ARGH. Kristin, I sort of did. I'll email what I have to you. I'm still looking for more grotesques, more magical realism and some thoughts on romance...
hippocampus - Apr 24, 2008 4:56:00 pm PDT #3422 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
grotesques, more magical realism and some thoughts on romance...
Poe; Marquez, Allende, Borges; and ... (see all I'm coming up with for the last is a cautionary tale about Cassie Edwards...)
eta: not that you really asked my opinion, or probably wanted it...
Pix - Apr 24, 2008 4:57:09 pm PDT #3423 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya is great for magical realism. I assume you already have something by Gabriel García Márquez and/or Isabel Allende?
Susan W. - Apr 24, 2008 5:00:47 pm PDT #3424 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Susan's tag has earwormed me with the Enya version.
Is that a good or a bad thing for you?
My choir is singing it this Sunday, and I've found practicing it comforting since hearing my mom's latest diagnosis.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 24, 2008 5:05:20 pm PDT #3425 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
AP english sounds a lot more interesting than when I was in school. Rocking horse Winner, To Esme with Love and Squalor, and Heart of Darkness.
Kat - Apr 24, 2008 5:12:26 pm PDT #3426 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
A Hundred Years of Solitude as the core reading. Then they can pick between an undecided Angela Carter book, Midnight's Children, The Famished Road, Life of Pi and maybe something else. If I can think of something else. eta Bless Me Ultima is a good choice!
For romance, I'm either going to teach Possession by AS Byatt (thus cramming more poetry in!) or....or....or.... I guess it depends on how generous my definition of Romance is. I guess I could do Jane Austen. Maybe some heroic work. The Aeneid?
under Grotesque I have a core reading of Picture of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde and then choices of Frankenstein, Metamorphosis and...? Geek Love! Which I think would totally get me in trouble and the book freaked me out, but might be a fun secondary choice that students can make.
Pix - Apr 24, 2008 5:14:28 pm PDT #3427 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Pride and Prejudice would be great for romance (and I have both recent versions on DVD if you want to borrow them to use in class at all). Some of Shakespeare would work in that category, too.
Kat - Apr 24, 2008 5:17:08 pm PDT #3428 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yeah. I'm starting the year with King Lear. And I thought I might do one of his comedies at the end of the year. I might need another play that is not Shakespeare.
I love Pride and Prejudice but don't know that it needs to be taught (by taught I mean read with assistance, if that makes sense). I am looking at a model of a core title for genre study and then students picking secondary novels. Possession is such a great multilayered book and it works as a nice transition from magical realism. And it's tough and best read with some support.