Showing posts with label Survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Survival. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Layering Instruction: Text Selection

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ENGLISH 1A: Non-Fiction Reading and Writing Fall 2020 Readings/Viewings: All of the texts feature models of effective writing and present...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Dear Lord Byron . . . .

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I've been teaching some books about specific obsessions, and in order for my students to understand that I was not judging or maligning ...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Swell: Captive in Clay

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The Captive, Unbound (Nisus) : sculpture mix; shino and transparent brown glazing; copper wire, beaten. Looking back: 07/18/13 Here...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Elemental!

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The Captive, Unbound -- Sculpture mix; shino and trans-brown glazing; copper wire, beaten. (I also call this fellow Nisus, The Trojan...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Nicolson's "Sea Room" -- Gaelic and Norse

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Adam Nicolson's Sea Room is a memoir concerning the Shiant Islands in the Hebrides.  Nicolson inherited the islands from hi...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Catching the Tide

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Here's the booklist for next semester's English 1A: Daniel Duane's Caught Inside; Curtis Ebbesmeyer & Eric Scigliano...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Byron: "A Small Drop Of Ink"

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,        Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps milli...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

A Danish Mermaid: Ophelia Revised

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In my version, she lives. Ophelia survives her madness and suicide attempt. I'm not sure wha...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Booklist: English 1A Fall 2011

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Susan Casey's The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks; Matthew B. Crawford...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Passages: Why Read? Why Write?

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Here's a poem by Chase Twichell from her Dog Language volume that offers an answer to those questions, at least for me. NECK EXERCISES B...