September 2010
3 posts
Is it just me, or is this totally insane?
The admissions application deadline for the UMass Lowell school of education is Jan 1.
Classes start Jan. 24.
That seems like a… short amount of time.
teaching lit.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the best way to teach literature to high schoolers (which really is right and proper, since I’m applying to teacher licensure programs this November). I am not sure what the best way is but I’m pretty confident I know a few bad ways. Here is one bad way: chronological progression.
I get why we teach the material in survey courses in...
a lit snob's forays into genre fiction part 1:...
On a friend’s recommendation, I sent a cellular signal into space. The radio waves that came back contained China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, in the form of some kind of digital code that my electronic reading device had no trouble rendering into print — a reasonable facsimile of a book. It’s frankly incredible that I can get almost any book I want, whenever I want,...