Updates, and stuff By Catherine on 2/20/2008 11:04:00 AM
This week is February vacation. I just bought a car. Life moves along, as always. I'm failing at my resolution to blog twice a week, but I'm succeeding in making progress with the novel. This is good. I've written 14,000 words since making that resolution. I rule. Obviously.And I think this article is fascinating-- check it out. I mean, I think it's fascinating because I'm a teacher, but I think most people will think it's equally interesting.
I've also been toying with ideas for English classes to teach. They're electives mostly, but I want to outline them for job interviews. These ideas include:
1. The Epistolary Novel (reading including Les Liaisons Dangereuses {Pierre Chodleros de Laclos}, The Perks of Being a Wallflower {Stephen Chbosky}, The Color Purple {Alice Walker}, Poor Folk {Fyodor Dostoevsky}).
2. World Economics in Literature (reading including Animal Farm {George Orwell}, 1984 {George Orwell}, Cry, the Beloved Country {Alan Paton}, The Threepenny Opera {Bertolt Brecht}, The Jungle {Upton Sinclair}). --> emails calling me a communist will be soundly ignored.
3. Literature for Romantics (reading: Water for Elephants {Sara Gruen}, Wuthering Heights {Charlotte Bronte}, Jane Eyre {Charlotte Bronte}, Sense and Sensibility {Jane Austen}, The Awakening {Kate Chopin-- just for a not-so-happy view}).
You know you're a total nerd when you sit around dreaming up English classes you'd like to teach. It's okay, I'm over it.
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