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Summer Book Club Week 7: Why Libraries Rule
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. I began and tossed aside a number of books this week. The only one I read through was… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 5: Astonish Me
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. According to the jacket flap, Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me is about “the nature of talent, the choices we… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 4: The Other Typist
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. I had issues with Suzanne Rindell’s The Other Typist. It appears that I liked it, because I finished… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 3: The Signature of All Things
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. Sometimes I think I just don’t like reading any more. Then I pick up a book like The… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 2: The Chairs are Where The People Go
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? was one of my Top 10 Books of 2012. I described… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 1: Rutu Modan’s The Property
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. I recently finished The Property, the latest book by Rutu Modan, the graphic novelist responsible for one of my… Continue reading
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Summer Book Club: What Are We Reading This Week?
I love the idea of book clubs, but the last thing an English teacher needs is more assigned reading. So I thought: what if we had a book club where we all just talk about whatever we’re reading right now? That way, we can read whatever we want! And talk about it! Once a week,… Continue reading
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Science, Art, and the Myth of the “Discipline”
I’m always delighted to read about college teachers who are are taking unusual approaches to pedagogy. Jailson Farias de Lima is one such teacher. In an article published on ProfWeb yesterday, he describes an innovative project he has designed for his chemistry students, challenging them to express their understanding of scientific concepts through art-making. Science… Continue reading
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Blog Hop!
Apparently a “blog hop” is a thing. I’ve been invited to participate in this one by my friend Anita Lahey, whose fascinating blog Henrietta & Me is all about the books she’s reading and the people in them. Anita is a poet, essayist and journalist; her poetry collection Out to Dry in Cape Breton was… Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 