More About Books
Mom is visiting, with the intention of finishing the alterations to my Bride's Maid's dress. And most of today was actually spent shopping.
I mentioned in my last post that I got a copy of difrancis 's new book, The Turning Tide, but I also got the really cheap Barnes and Noble Classics editions of Gulliver's Travels and Pride and Prejudice. I am considering teaching said books in a middle school English class. But I have to re-read them. The school (with whom I'm technically still in the application process) teaches its history and literature contemporaneously with one another on a four year cycle according to the time frames of Susan Wise Bauer's The Story of the World books, which means (if all goes according to plan) that I'll be teaching 'Early Modern' literature (written in the English language, but in no way confined to a particular nationality) spanning QEI in the 1550s to the California Gold-rush around1850. I've quite recently taken classes on the first and last chunks of that span of time, but there's a bit in the middle that I'll spend some time brushing up on this summer.
I mentioned in my last post that I got a copy of difrancis 's new book, The Turning Tide, but I also got the really cheap Barnes and Noble Classics editions of Gulliver's Travels and Pride and Prejudice. I am considering teaching said books in a middle school English class. But I have to re-read them. The school (with whom I'm technically still in the application process) teaches its history and literature contemporaneously with one another on a four year cycle according to the time frames of Susan Wise Bauer's The Story of the World books, which means (if all goes according to plan) that I'll be teaching 'Early Modern' literature (written in the English language, but in no way confined to a particular nationality) spanning QEI in the 1550s to the California Gold-rush around1850. I've quite recently taken classes on the first and last chunks of that span of time, but there's a bit in the middle that I'll spend some time brushing up on this summer.