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On Reading "Old Friend From Far Away" in Natalie Goldberg's book Thunder and Lightning
I supposed it's a bit ironic that I'm reading a book titled Thunder and Lightning on a gorgeous, breezy August Saturday morning. My house is quiet and the world is calm (thanks Wallace Stevens). Or course, as I read thunder and lightening boom and crack in my own mind: I am going to use this for my own writing! thunders an internal voice. But there is the lightning: I wish the teachers at JHS 194 were reading this! I wish I had a link to send this around! The unit is virtually all here!
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Posted on August 9, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
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I'm sorry to resort to this, but I have sent you a few emails about your wonderful story Ripped From the Headlights, and I'm not sure that you're getting them....Can you please contact me at dguernsey@pulsemagazine.org?
Thanks so much!
I read that article with great interest and it created a lively conversation in my house, especially with my 12 year old cousin visiting. Not surprisingly, my family still prefers books, but it cannot be ignored that many of our students and their families do not feel that way. There are definitely confinements at school with technology, since we don't have the resources for every classroom to be techno-able. Although, I could be wrong about that?
It seems imperative that our students have the research skills and the critical discernment skills to use the internet in ways that will be expected of them in college and the workplace. So I think our department has a lot of opportunity to work with nonfiction online. My entire thesis was done through electronic research. Which doesn't mean I think informational texts should be ignored. But with fiction, I think the focus should still be with real, stick your nose in and turn the pages books. However, now they sell the electronic book readers, but what if it breaks...books don't break.
Okay, I will stop myself because I could go on about this forever. I need to remember this is just a comment. =)