Class,
Apparently you have other classes. Weird. I'm mindful that your lives aren't (yet) spent engulfed in and embracing literature every waking moment of the day. I'd be lying if I said that this didn't disappoint me just a bit, but I've cried and I'm over it. Mostly.
I have been thinking about revising the reading skedj for a few days now. We're getting too far ahead in the reading and we need to catch up in class. (For the most part, that's my fault, not yours.) Because of the ease and flow of the narrative, I thought the reading would move along quickly and at a manageable pace. That said, annotating and reading closely certainly slow a reader down and as you might presume, I wouldn't want for any of us (myself included) to go light on the annotations.
So basically, in short, I'll revise the reading assignments and update the class accordingly on Wednesday.
And as if you didn't have enough to read, check out this Stop—Grammar Time! feature: Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location." It is a recent New York Times article that ought to get you on the grammar bandwagon. Thankfully, there's hope for the semicolon after all...
See you all in class,
—El Jefe.
John Wins Last Bonus Opp Ever.
Congrats to John, who was the first student to email me the correct answer to how the answers to the "total number of pages read" poll below were strategically picked.
His answer was as follows:
All of these are years. 2008 is our current year, 1984 is the year you were born*, 1812 is for the war of 1812, 1776 is the declaration of independance, and 1492 is the year columbus sailed the ocean blue! These also have to do with American dates, as the course is "American Lit."
* Actually, I was born in 1981. But four outta five ain't bad. Especially in baseball. Which this isn't. But still . . .
His answer was as follows:
All of these are years. 2008 is our current year, 1984 is the year you were born*, 1812 is for the war of 1812, 1776 is the declaration of independance, and 1492 is the year columbus sailed the ocean blue! These also have to do with American dates, as the course is "American Lit."
* Actually, I was born in 1981. But four outta five ain't bad. Especially in baseball. Which this isn't. But still . . .
Photo Feature: Uncle Rico.
A 21st century Tom Buchanan. Sort of.
". . . one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty one that everything afterwards savours of anticlimax. . . . I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game" (10).
The Truth about Bright Eyes.
The band name "Bright Eyes" was taken from Charlton Heston's character's nickname in Planet of the Apes, not Daisy's character description in The Great Gatsby. Sorry to disappoint.
"I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth . . ." (Fitzgerald, 13-14).
In Rotation: Selected 07-08 Highlights.
by your request...
Kansas, Moby, Ratatat, & Vampire Weekend.
from the prb. music library...
Bob Dylan, MC Frontalot, and as always, highlights from the following first-rate podcasts: Brooklyn Radio's "The Rub," & "Wake the Town and Tell the People," KCRW's "Sounds Eclectic," and NPR's "All Songs Considered."
About the Blogger.
- —pb.
- Mpls, MN, United States
- Educator. Modern Untrained Photographer. Poet. Wisconesotan. Green Bay Packer fanatic. Borderline unhealthy obsession with mustaches and doppelgangers.
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