May 2012
7 posts
After I saw Sleep No More
theatremajors:
OMIGOD YES.
Saw it in Boston (technically Brookline) a few years ago. Mind BLOWN. BLOWN I TELL YOU. I would happily write 0923483 papers on it/go to it 129300823 times.
When an actor thinks its cool to make fun of...
theatremajors:
What stage managing feels like
theatremajors:
…but I still miss it!
Or maybe I just miss hanging out in rehearsal rooms? Or maybe I miss the part where you drink after rehearsal…
12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry →
teachingliteracy:
amandaonwriting:
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!
2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
…I will show you something...
April 2012
16 posts
Class uses art to teach about Holocaust →
revolutionizeed:
One of the great challenges teachers have is getting their students to connect with the material, especially when it comes to teaching history. But at the Andover Middle School, one teacher is using art to teach about the Holocaust.
Interesting article with interesting use of art integration with history!
Integration of arts education with history education with literary...
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via llibre)
Nine Female Writers Who Had To Hide Their Gender →
amandaonwriting:
1. Keeping it in the family, the three talented Brontë sisters published their writing under the surname Bell. Emily published Wuthering Heights as Ellis Bell, Charlotte brought out Jane Eyre as Currer Bell and Anne used Acton Bell to release The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, as well as their joint poetry collections and other works.
2. A. S. Byatt was born Dame Antonia Susan Duffy,...
Day 15: Favorite male character
the-exchange:
Kubi: Eugenides from the Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner
Hanna: Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Because OMIGOD MY STOMACH LITERALLY JUST DROPPED THE THIEF. I adored that book. Read it over and over and over. Must go find before grading.
March 2012
19 posts
February 2012
170 posts
Overcoming the Plateau: Transitiv und Intransitiv →
otpdeutsch:
stehlen = to steal something (transitiv)
bestehlen = to steal someone (intransitiv)
Ich habe das Auto gestohlen. = I stole the car. (transitiv)
Der Musiklehrer hat die Mitschüler aus der ersten Klasse bestohlen. = The music teacher stole the first grade students. (intransitiv)
erschrecken…
This makes my head explode. I think about the erschreckt/erschrocken business in...
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: Barney Rosset,... →
lareviewofbooks:
Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press and The Evergreen Review, who fought censorship in famous legal battles over the publication of Lady Chatterly’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer, is dead at 89. Rosset introduced American readers to Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Octavio Paz, Pablo…
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via faerielandsforlorn)