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Apples in the Orchard: May 2010
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Summa Cum Grad, but No Job to be Had. Forgive me, blogoshphere, I have sinned; it has been three months since my last confessions—or blog entry—whichever you prefer. Ye United States of Excess! Take a lesson from the Romans and Greeks. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Apples in the Orchard (Education and Culture). On the 'Vine: The Pumpkinvine Creek Project. My Hill of Beans (Gardening). View my complete profile. Riddley Walker," b...
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 3: Big Think Interview With Anne Lamott
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Thursday, September 2, 2010. Professional Writing 3: Big Think Interview With Anne Lamott. Big Think Interview With Anne Lamott Anne Lamott Big Think. Please see my August 31st post for more about Anne Lamott. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Apples in the Orchard (Education and Culture). On the 'Vine: The Pumpkinvine Creek Project. My Hill of Beans (Gardening). View my complete profile. Professional Writing 7: Stuffing Our Eyeballs.
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 5: Shakespeare— Jungle Spud or Killer Bee?
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Thursday, September 9, 2010. Professional Writing 5: Shakespeare— Jungle Spud or Killer Bee? I seem to operate on only two modes: busy, buzzy bee or hairy, stinky sloth. I know; neither of those animals lead much of an appealing lifestyle. When I am in school taking a full load of classes, I am always reading, researching, and writing,. I suppose it's possible. I suppose writing does take take disciplined practice; hell, it is work. I guess this me...
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 7: Stuffing Our Eyeballs
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. Professional Writing 7: Stuffing Our Eyeballs. In the world of writing, "hunkering down" is a term taken from a section of essays in The Writing Life. Published by The Washington Post. If I stop seeing, hearing, touching,. There will be no story. I will be a writer with nothing to say—a violin with no music to play," which inadvertently rhymes and might be used as a kind of mantra to accompany a writer on the ...Septemb...
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Apples in the Orchard: November 2009
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Monday, November 30, 2009. Send Me Back to the Old Metal Shack . . . Back to School after Thanksgiving Break. I went back to teaching today, but only had to teach my Sophomore Lit. class in 6th block. We finished up the end of The Road. Like it's the right time to break off and hand it back to my mentor teacher. She'll be picking up the class with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. And introducing them to "puns.". Sunday, November 29, 2009. I'm supposed ...
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 8: Does American Rhetoric Use Undemocratic Vocabulary?
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Professional Writing 8: Does American Rhetoric Use Undemocratic Vocabulary? 8212;there is no "functional rhetoric." By that I mean that the purpose of rhetoric and the rhetorical argument is to spur the audience to some sort of tangible action to address the exigence of the situation. Remember e pluribus unum. Allowing immigrants, whether of legal or illegal status, the access to respectable public and higher educations&#...
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 6: The Art of Shorthand
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Professional Writing 6: The Art of Shorthand. 1 When did you start to write, seriously? 2 How would you characterize yourself as a writer? Your tone, specifically? 3 Through reading your books, I got the feeling that you got away. From writing and academia for a long time while you worked on. The railroad, although I'm sure that it still shaped who you were. Back into writing again after having been distanced from it in.
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Apples in the Orchard: October 2010
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Professional Writing 8: Does American Rhetoric Use Undemocratic Vocabulary? 8212;there is no "functional rhetoric." By that I mean that the purpose of rhetoric and the rhetorical argument is to spur the audience to some sort of tangible action to address the exigence of the situation. Remember e pluribus unum. Allowing immigrants, whether of legal or illegal status, the access to respectable public and higher educations&#...
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Apples in the Orchard: Professional Writing 4: "The Lady and the Leg"
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Professional Writing 4: "The Lady and the Leg". In "Reading Like A Writer," Francine Prose devotes an entire chapter to extolling the virtues of Anton Chekov's. Is alleged to have called Chekov's writing a "medley of dreadful prosaisms, ready-made epithets, [and] repetitions" (James Woods essay, What Chekhov Meant By Life. I could go on nitpicking at Fran, but in the interests of appearing. Prose offers up something that...
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Apples in the Orchard: February 2010
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Apples in the Orchard. Language, Literature &, Learning. Sunday, February 7, 2010. My daughter's birthday is tomorrow, and she turns 10 years old. It's hard for me to believe that she is that old. Love forever, Mommy. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. No, not really. I just find bueracracy maddening sometimes. Actually, subbing is more than most of my peers have been able do. 1) I have already passed both pedagogy and subject matter certification tests (that was one of the first questions the HR person asked me).
