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August 13, 2009
- The following is a list of books for senior high school students. It is ambitious, diverse and interesting. Life meets literature: Topics from Senior Seminars 1. 1984 by George Orwell. Government Surveillance: How much is too much? 2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. How have women’s roles changed in the past two generations? What are women’s conflicts between dreams ...
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July 28, 2009
- I know that I am supposed to teach proper sentence structure, grammar, character development, dialogue format, MLA format, literary analysis, argument, and writing strategies. These are my topics as an English professor, and you can throw in history and mythology and the classics and all sorts of other topics because writing contains many things and supposedly, I should know about them.But what ...
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July 20, 2009
- Stopping by my office at 1:58 in the afternoon, en route to my only summer class, the English Department Secretary pops in and says, "Look at this!" In the photo she is holding out to me is a healthy-looking older man sitting in a chair, the sole of one foot propped up, showing off a white sock with a small hole. I wonder what to say only briefly before she says, "It's my ...
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July 19, 2009
- I'm doing something I've never done before this week: namely, teaching 2 live (as opposed to online or deceased) writing workshops in a row. The first one, "Inflagranti Delicto: Writing Good Sex Scenes" took place yesterday at The Loft Literary Center and the second one, "Some Like it Hot: Writing Erotica and Erotic Romance" is scheduled for next Friday at the Golden Crown ...
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July 19, 2009
- Earlier this week, Peepy and I went to Montrose, CA to visit our friend Maureen who owns the most marvelous Once Upon a Time bookstore . . .Peeps, who prides herself in being ever so helpful, assisted Maureen with her window display . . . (Can you find Peeps?)Someday, Peepy hopes to have her memoir in Maureen's window. Peeps book is cleverly titled "My Memoirs by Peepy".On Friday, ...
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July 8, 2009
- How do we end up doing what we do? It´s been twenty years since I started teaching. I was hired as a teacher at Yazigi language school in July 1989, and that was my first "serious" job. Why did I take that job? I don´t know. I just loved the idea at the beginning and I loved it even more as time went by. I´d teach as well as translate, and eventually I found out those were activities ...
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July 5, 2009
- Many months have passed since my last blog post. A lot happened, most of which kept me from posting--or even writing much. I can explain the reason for my absence in one word:School.If you want the long story, read on. You see, I've volunteered for several years with the local high school, coaching voice and directing the music for their theater productions. Just before the Christmas holidays, ...
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June 20, 2009
- I was one of those girls who loved school. I didn't dread September the way my friends did, because with September came a stack of shiny new school supplies. (In You've Got Mail, when Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan he'd like to buy her a bouquet of yellow pencils to celebrate the fall, I fell in love with him right then and there.) When I wasn't in school, I played school, dragging my reluctant ...
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May 19, 2009
- I have a little ditty I like to sing, but I don't know what it is. I have a little cheer to make, but I can't quite do it now. Oh, it's my finals are almost over cry, my finals are soon done. Oh, the meetings will finally stop, the memos to a halt. Oh, it's my happy little song, graduation has come and gone.Yes I could go down the hall singing that ridiculous paragraph above, but they ...
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May 4, 2009
- I love teaching. Teaching for me is giving something back to writers whether they're published or not, are seeking to write fiction, when they've been writing nonfiction, to share experiences about what works and what doesn't, because when I was really new at writing, I needed all the help I couldn't get just from reading books on writing.I think the ultimate compliments my students give me is ...
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