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The first deadline for my April series has been brought forward to tonight. This will mean one thing out of my hands, thank goodness.
I've met with the teacher I'm replacing on Fridays next term. He's lovely, and his teaching methods are different to mine but 100% the right ones for the particular class, so I'm really going to enjoy borrowing his students for a term and slotting into their style.
It's a reading group, and I'm allowed to introduce them to speculative fiction. I just need to find 10 really rather marvellous short stories of 3000 words or less. Ones with emotional impact, I think, for most of the class will only have time to read them through the once. High on clarity and meaning and style and characterisation and low on strange concepts.
These students are well up to strange concepts, but I want to get them to realise the other values that spec fic can have, first. If they totally understand that they're reading outstanding fiction, they can explore out from there. The stories also need to be easily obtainable, of course, which limits things. All suggestions considered!
Other big things have not happened today. I've learned that the day before I see the physio is not a high-energy day. It's also not a comfortable day. Comparing this Tuesday with other Tuesdays, though, I can see definite progress.
I've met with the teacher I'm replacing on Fridays next term. He's lovely, and his teaching methods are different to mine but 100% the right ones for the particular class, so I'm really going to enjoy borrowing his students for a term and slotting into their style.
It's a reading group, and I'm allowed to introduce them to speculative fiction. I just need to find 10 really rather marvellous short stories of 3000 words or less. Ones with emotional impact, I think, for most of the class will only have time to read them through the once. High on clarity and meaning and style and characterisation and low on strange concepts.
These students are well up to strange concepts, but I want to get them to realise the other values that spec fic can have, first. If they totally understand that they're reading outstanding fiction, they can explore out from there. The stories also need to be easily obtainable, of course, which limits things. All suggestions considered!
Other big things have not happened today. I've learned that the day before I see the physio is not a high-energy day. It's also not a comfortable day. Comparing this Tuesday with other Tuesdays, though, I can see definite progress.