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By: 2009: A Recap « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, learning more each day

2009: A Recap « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, learning more each day — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:29:08 +0000

[...] In January, I began the year with lots of blogging energy. I wrote about the historic inauguration, first-day jitters, and abandoned places. I wrote in my notebooks and fretted over a temporarily lost kitten. I also spent time thinking of reasons to feel good and John Updike. [...]

By: Teaching the Iceberg Theory « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, and learning more each day

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:14:03 +0000

[...] I haven’t attempted any more short fiction, but I have been teaching it more and more, and blogged about it from that perspective too. I think in that entry, I forgot to mention that I’d used Raymond Carver’s [...]

By: Sunshine « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, and learning more each day

Sunshine « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, and learning more each day — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:41:05 +0000

[...] experience the poems and react without having to be too analytical. I was partially thinking of the class where we’d had such success with Hills Like White Elephants, so we read the poems aloud and then I asked them to tell me something they noticed or liked. I had [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:46:18 +0000

Coffee, that’s an intriguing way to look at it.

elswhere– haven’t read those, but love the idea of Grace Paley– will have to dig around and see what I can find.

By: elswhere

elswhere — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:56:05 +0000

How about The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula Leguin?

Or maybe a Grace Paley story? I love her so. The Used Boy Raisers? Might be hard for high school level, though, or for reading aloud– they’re so much about the voice, and so ambiguous.

By: coffee

coffee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:38:38 +0000

the loss of John Updike makes me wonder if the literary world is being replenished at the same rate that it’s losing such great writers

By: jackie

jackie — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:52:40 +0000

I do, but the junior classes also have a few boys in them, which is interesting .

By: Becca

Becca — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:41:12 +0000

I think A&P will totally work, especially because you teach in a girls school, don’t you? Total gender/class/responsibility/blame stuff that generates excellent discussion, apart from literary technique, etc.