Showing posts with label Education/Teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education/Teaching. Show all posts

All the Ms: Mallette to Mallone

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Gloria Mallette: Distant Lover starts with a clearly characterized protagonist. Lots of family problems, so I didn’t keep going, but I did...

Thoughts on First-Person in Fiction and Essays

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A unique Bones episode told from the point of view of a dead boy. I have mixed feelings about first-person in fiction. It is ubiquitous; th...

Spoofs of Academe in Pamela Tribute, Mr. B Speaks!

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Mr. B Speaks! is partly a spoof. Mr. B has to defend his marriage to Pamela against a group of academics, and I used their objections/conve...

The Dark Pasts (and Futures) of Children's Writers, Expanded

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The best scene in The Secret Garden is when Mary, infuriated by Colin's tantrum, accuses him of self-martyrdom. Colin, who is truly fri...

Fairy Tales: The Real King Arthur, Maybe

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Researching King Arthur was the first major research I did on my own as a teen. And it wasn't the clanking armor version that enthralled...
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Why I'm Not Anti-Disney (Even When I Roll My Eyes)

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Re-post from 2017. I will be referencing this post when I start A-Z List 7, Fairy Tales.  Although I will criticize Disney , I am not in fac...
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Advanced Scrabble Isn't About Words

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The words used here are "easy." I recently found a free version of Scrabble--I play against the computer. I enjoyed Level 1. Howev...

Interview with the Translator: High School in Manga

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Literature can provide insights into the culture and historical time period in which that literature was produced.  Years ago, my mother tol...

Assumptions & Theories about History: The Dawn of Conscience & Current Theorists

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As preparation for discussing Isis (the goddess), I read The Dawn of Conscience by James Breasted.  The book was written in 1935 (I actually...

The Cluelessness of Literary Writers: Oprah & Franzen

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Re-post from 2006. * * * I'm in the midst of reading a book Reading With Oprah by Kathleen Rooney (March 2006). She has a chapter on ...
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