Finally finished the bloody thing. It is marvelous. A little porno towards the end, if justified. Still very Page Six. UNLESS: Full report on the meaning of the Victorian sensibilities, in all their facets, particularly the mathematical, perhaps the sexual, due soon. Well. It is bike riding weather.
Lovely North Fork of Long Island
For those high school teachers out there, who may be interested today or tomorrow, North or South, the link will download and/or take you to an 11th-grade unit plan on William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.
It’s a draft, and your comments are most welcome.
https://alanfleisig.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/fleisig_faulkner_unit-plan_v04_clean.doc
UPDATE: Below is the link to the “final” version of this Unit Plan.
https://alanfleisig.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/fleisig_faulkner_unit-plan_final.doc
Happy Summer, everyone!
Posted in Inside Ed School, Poetics, The American Experience, What We're Reading, in Six Words or Less
Tagged Ed
Tough Liberal, by Richard Kahlenberg
Surprisingly readable indictment of New Left, neo-Liberals.
The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte
Sour-ball Pynchovian misadventure starring Gatsby McSnark.
John myths shattered. Ringo is ahhright.
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
Understated and brilliant. Double Yeh’s!
Acerbic history of our executive–overlord state.
In the (East) end, mostly gossip.
Inspirations and Aspirations 