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Archive for September, 2009

I’ve been down and out for the past ten days with the seasonal flu. In consideration of the upcoming Talk Like a Pirate Day, I was able to do a credible imitation of the dying Captain Flint (Treasure Island):
“Darby McGill! Darby McGill! Bring aft the rum, Darby!”
Or at least I was until I lost my [...]

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Re: Improving My Mind

The New York Times has an interesting article on a new approach to teaching English literature entitled “The Future of Reading: Pick the Books You Like”. As the title suggests, this approach, called “reading workshop”, encourages middle school students to read more by doing away with an assigned list of classic texts. Instead, kids pick [...]

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