Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
It doesn't seem contemptuous to you to push a vile viewpoint for a mass audience and laugh at it later?
I guess it would, but I don't think that's what's going on. Again, I haven't watched it. But I don't think making a joke about X is the same thing as finding X amusing all by itself. I mean, if they are, I must think that murdering babies is the funniest thing ever.
Breaking into the politics stuff with an odd request....
Do any of you have copies of Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Brave New World, or Lord of the Flies that you'd be willing to part with? Starting November 17, we are going to be studying these books and I have just found out that the school has rejected my request to purchase these books. I have some used copies and would love to accumulate as many used books as I can (I need 65 total of Handmaid's Tale, and then 15 of each of the others) before I go out to buy new ones.
Please please please. If you have a copy on your bookshelf and you don't need it, would you consider sending it to me?
I recently purchases Brave New World with the intention of re-reading it - I'll get right on that so I can send it to you. I'm pretty sure I have Handmaid's Tale around, so if I find it I'll send it as well.
You can send your snail address to my profile addy....
So do you need these by Nov 17? or before that?
Kat, let me put the word out at school. Our students buy their own books, and some of them may be willing to part with their old copies. Their copies my have annotations, though--I assume you'd prefer clean copies?
Kat, insent to your profile addy.
and I have just found out that the school has rejected my request to purchase these books
WTF? How are you supposed to teach them?
I also asked my bosses - one said he thinks he has a few of those books, and if he doesn't he'll give a donation.
So, Paypal or check?
WTF? How are you supposed to teach them?
Stone tablets, I'm guessing.
Our district rejected the middle school band director's request to buy new sheet music. Using the textbook funds that are supposed to be allocated to all classes. But band's an elective. So we get to pay an extra 150.00 for the kids to be able to have music.
In my HS band we just photocopied most of our sheet music (especially the little sheets for marching and pep band). But I suspect this might be a more risky option these days....
A CD company, Archeophone Records has released Debate '08. That's 1908, dear friends, the master debaters being Williams Jennings Bryan, Democrat, and William Howard Taft, Republican.