I am going to develop a website for kick-ass English HS teachers
Seconding-thirding-fourthing the applause for this idea. I bet it kicks serious ass, too.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2004 11:43:04 am PDT #2233 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Strix - Apr 14, 2004 11:43:34 am PDT #2234 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(psssst - I write ghost stories.....)
Le duh. This is so in the future, since, hey, not teaching yet, but it would be so cool to have my students reading a book, and possibly be able to talk with the author of the book about process and ideas...It's the kind of thing that really gets them involved -- "I talk to a REAL LIVE AUTHOR!"
Kristen, I tagged you and Kat when I was thinking about this, and laster this summer, I'm going to put in a blurb in Announcements. I'm also going to troll the web for sites, and see what I can find from various message boards, like NCTE.
beth b - Apr 14, 2004 11:45:22 am PDT #2235 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
actually have a side reading list is a great idea -- if even for future papers down the road that the kids need to do.
Kate P. - Apr 14, 2004 11:45:35 am PDT #2236 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
"We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" is the title, Dana; isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title? I really love "Murder Mysteries" as well.
Dana - Apr 14, 2004 11:48:04 am PDT #2237 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title?
Yeah, must be. I knew the title was very close to something famous.
Strix - Apr 14, 2004 11:56:09 am PDT #2238 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I remember the "Wholesale" story vaguely; I need to recheck the book out.
Oh, gee, what onerous homework for this weekend! What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"
I've glad you guys like the idea for the site, although I'm nervous: the only coding I've done is the tags on here! But I suppose I can do Dreamweaver or something; there are plenty of juicy Buffista brains to pick in August.
I have to take a Stats class this summer. I will not be thinking about fall classes until after I ride THAT dragon. Ugh.
Polter-Cow - Apr 14, 2004 12:16:23 pm PDT #2239 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Maybe the one...it's called something like "We Can Get It For You Wholesale", but I think I'm conflating it.
I love that one. It's in my copy of Neverwhere.
isn't there also a Philip K. Dick story with a very similar title
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," upon which Total Recall was based.
What's the name of the collection -- is it "Smoke and Mirrors?"
Yes.
There's a short story collection I have, with young adult short stories of the supernatural variety. It's called Short Circuits. "Ethan Unbound," by Gary L. Blackwood, might work. It takes place in a library.
Ginger - Apr 14, 2004 12:17:17 pm PDT #2240 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
M.F.K. Fisher's "The Lost, Strayed, Stolen" is my ultimate ghost story. When I went to see if it was available, I found it was in The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories, which has some other great stuff. There's also Poe ("The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death"), Ray Bradbury and M.R. James, pretty much the father of modern ghost story.
bon bon - Apr 14, 2004 12:30:58 pm PDT #2241 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
"The Supernatural in Literature."
Gothic novels, e.g., The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, or The Italian.
Strix - Apr 14, 2004 12:38:17 pm PDT #2242 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Poe is on my list -- the one that's written down at home, not the malfunctioning one ni my head. Cool.
BB, if I do a novel, it would have to be a short one. The unit would be about 6 weeks long.