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GordonC said:
always worth a re-read
I will continue to have my Honors 10 students read the story "Harrison Bergeron" until I am told we cannot do that story in public schools. And if that time ever comes, I will probably do it anyway.
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God Bless you Mr. Rosewater was my favorite the first time reading through the catalog.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
God Bless you Mr. Rosewater was my favorite the first time reading through the catalog.
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I remember I read that one because the "Pearls before swine" part was something I had heard all my life in church. It might have been my senior year in HS. Then I remember on a Criminal Minds episode there was a reference to Kilgore Trout.
Edit: I am thinking it was during my senior year, because before we began twelfth grade English (over the summer), I had to read The Stranger, Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment, Billy Budd, and Slaughterhouse-Five. I read SHF before Rosewater, I do remember that.
 
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GordonC said:
I remember I read that one because the "Pearls before swine" part was something I had heard all my life in church. It might have been my senior year in HS. Then I remember on a Criminal Minds episode there was a reference to Kilgore Trout.
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My entire adult life I have planned on naming my next dog Kilgore or Dali as in Salvador.
 
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GordonC said:
always worth a re-read
I will continue to have my Honors 10 students read the story "Harrison Bergeron" until I am told we cannot do that story in public schools. And if that time ever comes, I will probably do it anyway.
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When do classes start up again your way?

Do they still let high schoolers read JD Salinger and Thomas Hardy and John Donne and those that make you think a bit?
 
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VolNExile said:
When do classes start up again your way?

Do they still let high schoolers read JD Salinger and Thomas Hardy and John Donne and those that make you think a bit?
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Our workdays start on the 10th. I think students come back on the 15th.
Now here in Kingsport, the city schools start Monday. One grandchild in 7th, one in 5th, one in 3rd, one in K.
I'm not certain about Bristol City or Sullivan County.
I was driving by the Appalachian fairgrounds a couple of days ago and noticed that Gray Elementary starts back on Monday also, but that annexing is crazy and I am honestly not certain if that school is part of Johnson City schools or if it's still in the Washington County system.
I encourage students to read Salinger. We have a couple of copies in the school library. I talk about it a lot. And Kerouac. And the Merry Pranksters. hahaha
I do some Donne in 11th, as well as Browning's "The Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover."
 
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GordonC said:
Our workdays start on the 10th. I think students come back on the 15th.
Now here in Kingsport, the city schools start Monday. One grandchild in 7th, one in 5th, one in 3rd, one in K.
I'm not certain about Bristol City or Sullivan County.
I was driving by the Appalachian fairgrounds a couple of days ago and noticed that Gray Elementary starts back on Monday also, but that annexing is crazy and I am honestly not certain if that school is part of Johnson City schools or if it's still in the Washington County system.
I encourage students to read Salinger. We have a couple of copies in the school library. I talk about it a lot. And Kerouac. And the Merry Pranksters. hahaha
I do some Donne in 11th, as well as Browning's "The Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover."
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Oh my, Kerouac. I did not have teachers as cool as you. It was awesome going to City Lights in SF after I read all the Beats as a whippersnapper.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
Oh my, Kerouac. I did not have teachers as cool as you. It was awesome going to City Lights in SF after I read all the Beats as a whippersnapper.
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hahaha well, I am pretty demanding, so some of the students do not think I am cool, I'm sure. But you know what, I have always tried to get my students to do one thing: think for themselves and develop critical thinking skills. If that means introducing them to controversial topics, then so be it. I am the only teacher in my building who will tell the students I don't give a dam about their test scores (for which I am responsible, by the way). If we do what we are supposed to do, the scores will take care of themselves. Focusing on "getting by" and meeting the "minimum standard," I am afraid (sadly), has wrecked public education in this country. And I hate it.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
When Reagan nominated Douglas Ginsburg to the Supreme Court I was stoked. I was also probably high because I thought he was nominating Allen Ginsberg.
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@82_VOL_83 Don't take this to the PF because all of a sudden we'll have some of the Googlers and pasters who "knowed it all along," and we know that ain't true.
:D
 
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