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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:51 PM
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Kind of makes you wonder what they would do to a student named **** or called **** as nickname for richard

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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:53 PM
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Chris- have you ever heard of any High school classes probably AP teaching Ulysses.. Or any James Joyce for that matter? I took a Yeats and Joyce class in college and feel in Love with Joyce's writings, and was suprised I hadn't read any of his stuff until then!
Ick. Personally, I can't deal with Joyce. Stream of consciousness is challenge for my brain. I took a Modern British Lit class in college and had to read some Joyce and a few other novels that I just didn't "get". I think I remember reading that summer with the novels in one hand and the Cliff Notes in the other. Could have been that it was a 5 week course in which I had to read 5 novels, 4 plays, 250 pages of poetry, and write 4 essays. One of the hardest English courses I took.

I haven't heard of Ulysses being taught in our district; if it is, it is probaby on senior level. Same with Joyce and Yeats for that matter. My son was exposed to Yeats in college and fell in love with him.
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Since we are talking literature.. I wanted to share a funny story...

My 4th grade 10 year old son is very competitive with his best friend. So his best friend said that he was reading the Odyssey with his mom at night... so my son comes home on library day with The Iliad!

(it has a 44 page "pronouncing glossary" in the back of the book)
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:57 PM
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Kind of makes you wonder what they would do to a student named **** or called **** as nickname for richard
Yup. Actually our network censors a little bit looser now than they were back then, thank goodness, but we still run into issues with research topics that have any allusion to "private" body parts, sex, etc. There are legitimate needs to search using those terms. Fortunately we do have very good databases for students that work around the censors.
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:58 PM
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Since we are talking literature.. I wanted to share a funny story...

My 4th grade 10 year old son is very competitive with his best friend. So his best friend said that he was reading the Odyssey with his mom at night... so my son comes home on library day with The Iliad!

(it has a 44 page "pronouncing glossary" in the back of the book)
That's funny.
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:58 PM
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Have fun with that RTS, lol! I just ordered some chapter books to start reading to my daugther every night before bed.. Looking forward to the bonding time!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:00 PM
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Ick. Personally, I can't deal with Joyce. Stream of consciousness is challenge for my brain. I took a Modern British Lit class in college and had to read some Joyce and a few other novels that I just didn't "get". I think I remember reading that summer with the novels in one hand and the Cliff Notes in the other. Could have been that it was a 5 week course in which I had to read 5 novels, 4 plays, 250 pages of poetry, and write 4 essays. One of the hardest English courses I took.

I haven't heard of Ulysses being taught in our district; if it is, it is probaby on senior level. Same with Joyce and Yeats for that matter. My son was exposed to Yeats in college and fell in love with him.
Yeats.. he is interesting. I like his early stuff, before he went all mystic and starting writing about fairies and such
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:01 PM
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My kids loved Magic Treehouse books.

My son is reading the Percy Jackson series so they are big into greek mythology. His friend says he's going to be a Greek Mythology professor when he grows up so I'm sure my son knows how to pronounce this stuff but I don't ..
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We should compile a top 10 must read list... I need that kind of motivation!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:02 PM
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LC -Have you finished reading Emma?
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:04 PM
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Have fun with that RTS, lol! I just ordered some chapter books to start reading to my daugther every night before bed.. Looking forward to the bonding time!
I love that they call them "chapter" books. I first heard that term a few years ago from a little neighbor girl.

Eta: I still have my copies of jane eyre and david Copperfield that I bought for myself in late grade school from yhe scholastic book club. I just realized - that's when my "habit" began!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:04 PM
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So, this afternoon I started questing if I really have strep.. Didn't feel all that sick, sore throat was on and off. Now I feel it, throat hurts like heck, just in general feel like crap! Oh.. and the big white patch in the back of my throat pretty much confirms it. Looks like I will be spending the morning at the urgent care to get myself some antibiotics. I have a feeling they will tell me not to go to work on Monday... Which, is kind of hard consdering I have used all of my sick days plus some. Hoping next school year my kids and I won't be so sick!!!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:05 PM
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Oh Lola.. I don't blame you if you couldn't finish Emma.. I couldn't the second time around!!! Although, we did have a nice convo about it at our last book club meeting!!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:06 PM
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Its such a big deal to kids to go from bedtime story books that you can read in one sitting to "chapter" books that you read a chapter a night. My kids would beg me to read just another chapter...
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:07 PM
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Healed do you have a dish washer?

My sister went through three cycles of all of her kids and her and her husband getting strep over and over again... dr told her apparently strep is hard to "kill" and dishes really need to be done in a dishwasher... also not storing toothbrushes together in same holders... replace them after strep...
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:07 PM
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Umm... Haven't even looked at it... Can we start with something less "time period" ish?
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:08 PM
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Its such a big deal to kids to go from bedtime story books that you can read in one sitting to "chapter" books that you read a chapter a night. My kids would beg me to read just another chapter...
LOL- My daughter is just getting there. I have been started to read some longer books to her, and splitting them up over a two or three nights.. Not chapter books but def not quick ones. She always asks ask to read to the end.. she has to know what happens!!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:10 PM
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Lemon ginger tea, and gargle with salt water.

Eta: I hate tea and rarely use salt so you know I'm sick if I touch those things. Good point about t he toothbrushes, rts!

Eta: anybody else notice the new tv ads about the kids learning to go potty, have the kids flushing an OPEN ie lid up toilet seat right at the kids' face level??!! Welcome to cootie city! Please! Lid down, then flush!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:11 PM
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I may have to get into the Iliad...it might be my last chance at my 10 year old letting me read to him...he tells me he's too old...
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:13 PM
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Okay here is a list (it combines authors with specific titles because some you will totally want to read all of what the person wrote)

Jane Austen

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Dispatches - Michael Herr

Faulkner

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Why I Live at the PO - Eudora Welty (a short story)

Flannery O'Connor

Gospel Hour - T.R. Pearson

Dorothy Sayers

Agatha Christie
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:15 PM
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Ohh.. I just re-read Oranges are not the Only Fruit.. Great one!!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:17 PM
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Argg - do I have to stop at ten? More keep coming to me.
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:17 PM
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I haven't heard of 2/3 of those things...
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:19 PM
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SD with your love of literature I suspect you missed your calling.. Maybe a Literature professor??? Although, I hear lawyers do have to do a lot of reading!
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Old Apr 13, 2013, 11:20 PM
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I like
Fahrenheit 451
The Shack
The Giver
Auto biographies and biographies
Louis Lamor , I have no idea why
A wrinkle in time
Vc Andrews
The Jungle
catcher in the rye
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