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[sartorias]

While at Horse Camp, I had a borrowed mini-computer called an EEE. Nifty in many ways, it was tiny and very hard to control, so I didn't post entries.

A few expressed in interest in Wren Journeymage, Chapter Two, which went up on Thursday.

Today, Kids and a sense of history.

Comments

[fjm]

The eee's keyboard is unpleasant and the physical balance is poor. Don't let it put you off minis. I adore my HP mininote.

[sartorias]

Beggars can't be choosers! That's all that is available to borrow.

[fjm]

Just didn't want you to think it was the nature of the beast.

[sartorias]

No, I've seen some very nifty machines in the wild, but yet another 600 bucks dropped on my daughters aged crapmobile yesterday pushes me getting such a thing farther and farther back.

[laetificat]

New Wren! This made my day!

*goes to read*
*immediately*

[sartorias]

Thank you--hope you enjoy the story!

[anonymous]

from pilgrimsoul

Loved the entry about kids and their sense of history. History is about human beings and all that comes with them. You conveyed that. I hope I do.

[sartorias]

If you feel like it, comment over there about some of your techniques. Other teachers might like to pick up a tip or two.

[anonymous]

from pilgrimsoul

If teachers read it, then ok.

[sartorias]

I've seen a few comments that they do. I'd love to get some teacher talk going, eventually. But these things are slow to build.

[faerie_writer]

Sundays at the BVC are fast becoming my favourite time of the week! How lucky those kids were to have *you* for a history teacher! :D

[sartorias]

We had fun, we did! And they learned. I was extremely gratified that not once but several times old students would return and say things like "I learned more history in fifth grade than I did in tenth," which made me both proud and sad because I know those teachers were probably forced into the ridiculous "No Child Left Behind" teach-to-the-test mode, rather than having the freedom that I'd had to actually get into real history.

Thanks for reading.

[asakiyume]

Very much enjoyed chapter 2. I've only read the first Wren book and now this, but i feel totally caught up by the bits of information you gave, as the characters recall about the war, for instance or about Wren discovering she has a father still alive.

I'm interested to see how it will really play out with Tess and Hawk. Here I *am* at a bit of a disadvantage, not (yet) having seen Hawk's behavior in the last book--so it's hard to tell whether he's a Vidanric type or someone shading darker (someone more like Garian). I can imagine either one being interesting for the story. But at least half the story will now be Wren's adventures elsewhere--will have to see what that brings.

[sartorias]

Thanks for reading! :-)