Despite my attentions in using a different euphemism for Jake’s injury during each class period as we studied The Sun Also Rises, my students remain very literal.
Excerpts from final exams:
1. “Jake also lost his penis in the war.”
2. “Bret by the end of the book has just about slept with every male in the whole story (except for Jake I think because doesn’t have junk)”
3. “He can never sire children nor enjoy the company of a woman ever again.”
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Gotta love final exam doodles. Apparently I’m going to meet a muscular, literary Italian man this summer in Venice. #studentwork
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The 6ft tall card my 11th graders made for me. Please note the presence of Leo as Gatsby, HP, the Alot, and “Dan” my male doppelgänger
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On the train, we read.
Sometimes I think I should have kept a list of all the books I have read on trains. Certainly most of the books that have been important to me would be there. Perhaps I just read better on rails. A book has a better chance of getting through to me, particularly when I’m in a compartment, and at night. This hiss of metal on metal, the very slight swaying of the carriage, the feeling of being securely enclosed in a comfortable, well-lighted space while the world is flung by in glossy darkness outside, all this puts me in a mood to read, as if the material world had been suspended and I were entirely in the realm of the mind.
—from Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks
(Photo by San Sharma on Flickr)
Yes. This will be my summer.
#1 most-played song in my itunes
(Source: ginnychamberlain)
Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
how did I miss this until now???
Student’s paper on Things Fall Apart
Worship You | Vampire Weekend
The sound of productivity.
Eventually Daisy comes over and says she would like to break up with Tom Buchanan and marry Gatsby instead, because of shirts. Everyone has a fight and eventually Gatsby dies, which represents death. The most important metaphor in The Great Gatsby is the shooting stars, which happen in the sky at least twice in every scene. The shooting stars represent the fact that Gatsby is the “star” of the book and somebody “shoots” him at the end. Aren’t we all a little bit like Gatsby in this modern world?
Michael Bluth (via thatsgreathustle)
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Walt Whitman’s haversack to go on display at Library of Congress.
Most hipster bag ever?
Classic Walt.
First trailer for Arrested Development - Season 4!
Oh my god.
And I was worried my expectations would be too high…
(Source: timetoputonashow)
