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American Lit: Summer Tutorial   Sunday, June 12, 2005   learn ourselves lnterest session teams pam need to work together necessity product 3:25 AM   resources @ etrain hdwre software see etrain starting wireless laptop in classroom pd 8/18 vital source software 3:25 AM Friday, December 05, 2003   ::: wood s lot ::: "the fitful tracing of a portal": "I got a bass drum that's about 59 inches across. It's enormous, it's like hitting a dumpster with a sledge hammer. It'll free ya. (...) We all have a drum in our chest from the moment we're born. I think music where the tempo is faster than the heartbeat excites you and music that is slower than the heartbeat calms you down. We all have a constant rhythmic beat going on, whether or not you hear it, it's continuing. You feel it all the time whether you acknowledge it or not. - Tom Waits" For some reason this struck me as a positive, Christmas-sy thought. God knows we need them.~Terry 5:43 AM Saturday, October 25, 2003   African American Literature Web Resources on African American Writers and Literature 5:11 PM   10. Duck, Leigh Anne " Go there tuh know there": Zora Neale Hurston and the Chronotope of the Folk [View in PDF] American Literary History - Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 265-294 - Article 5:11 PM   PAL: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 4:56 PM   Stories and Living a Life by Robert Coles: "All fiction helps us, the readers, to join the company of the characters whose lives we get to meet on the pages of a book - to become, really, companions on a search, a journey within ourselves that often can prompt all sorts of valuable questions about how we are spending the precious time allotted us. A story becomes a friend, a guide, a source of entertainment and enlightenment both, even, sometimes, a shaping influence on how we think, what we try to do, as we move along, day after day, on our journey." 3:34 PM   Stories and Living a Life by Robert Coles: "All fiction helps us, the readers, to join the company of the characters whose lives we get to meet on the pages of a book - to become, really, companions on a search, a journey within ourselves that often can prompt all sorts of valuable questions about how we are spending the precious time allotted us. A story becomes a friend, a guide, a source of entertainment and enlightenment both, even, sometimes, a shaping influence on how we think, what we try to do, as we move along, day after day, on our journey." 3:33 PM   Zora Neale Hurston discussion transcripts Various progs talking about H. Edgar Whan - It’s a nice framed story. It’s like Ulysses coming home. Marilyn Atlas - Does this friendship ever work absolutely? Is that one of the things she’s saying? That we need each other… Annette Oxindine - I think she wants us to see the larger connectedness. One of the things that breaks down relationships between individuals are the different hierarchies within the community. And I think that the fact that she triumphs in overalls and she’s oppressed in a blue satin dress. And when she’s sitting on the porch, when she connects with the land and she sees herself as part of the community, those women are threatened by her because of the fact that they are kept separate because power is meted out in such an unfair way. And that’s why they have to be careful. They’re not free to completely love and associate with her. Edgar Whan - Whatever else, she’s a free person and they’re always dangerous. If the university produced ten free people a year, they’d close it down. Marilyn Atlas - Oh, how sad. Annette Oxindine - I’m more optimistic, I’ll say twenty-five. I’m younger. Edgar Whan - Would you save this city for twenty-five? No? Twenty? And they went down the line and there was nobody left. Maybe with our population increase you could say fifteen. Marilyn Atlas - Is she free at the end? Annette Oxindine - Well, then we’d have to get into the whole discussion of what freedom is. I do think she is free to articulate who she is herself a little bit more. I think she does come back as her own daughter. Edgar Whan - She’s killed the money myth. She’s killed all the myths. She’s been through them and found all of them for what they were worth. Marilyn Atlas - She does end single and childless. Which is I’m not sure is such a positive statement if you have to be your own daughter that’s a pretty self-contained system. There’s a wonderful side of it in terms of individual identity, but there’s the other side of it that she’s not managed with all her beauty and all her wisdom. Annette Oxindine - Maybe Hurston is suggesting that a woman to give birth does not have to give birth to a biological child, but she’s giving birth to other women, she’s giving birth to a story. 3:31 PM Tuesday, September 30, 2003   Bowling for Columbine : Library : Teacher's Guide What every radical, subversive, grad assistant wants---a teacher's guide for one of my favorite movies (along with, of course, The Big Lebowski) Bowling for Columbine. 8:38 PM   Bowling for Columbine : Library : Teacher's Guide What every radical, subversive, grad assistant wants---a teacher's guide for one of my favorite movies (along with, of course, The Big Lebowski) Bowling for Columbine. 8:38 PM   Parker Palmer Interview -- YES! A Journal of Positive Futures Nice interview. Bet you didn't know you were part of a social movement. Hippie radicals. Wait'll me and my John Birch buddies get into power. 7:40 PM   Google Search: Parker Palmer So I went right home and emailed invites to youse gals and guys. Here is Google's entry for "Parker Palmer" Anybody with any ideas. You know how I like demonstrations. I have a really good one on how to do one impossible thing. Anybody want to see it. Might make a good visual for PP. 7:21 PM Monday, September 15, 2003   Freedom to Tinker: Computers As Graders Computers as paper graders--what do you think Luddites and geeks and everyone in between? 7:38 PM   Freedom to Tinker: Computers As Graders Computers grading essays. Where do you stand? 7:37 PM Saturday, September 13, 2003   Johnny Cash is dead. Long live the man in black. Sample what others are saying at the link below. blogosphere.us : Last Citations for: CNN.com - The 'Man in Black' Johnny Cash dead at 71 - Sep. 12, 2003 7:11 PM   This is just fun. Appeals to the semi-random in me. You pick from thirteen dropdown choices. For example I wanted a book that was very happy, extremely larger than life, extremely sexy (but not Trash sexy), and definitely bleak. Here are the book that whichever chose for me to look at. Crash by Nan McCarthy In America by Susan Sontag The Lone Man by Bernado Atxaga Something Wicked New Scottish Crime Fiction by Susie Maguire (ed) John Dory by John Murray I am off to Amazon this very minute. whichbook.net 6:43 PM Monday, September 08, 2003   Great poem. 6:59 PM