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Space mentioned twice: I hope to explore connection between landscape and craft (Craeft) in teaching, and borders/enclosure in J Austen touching on aspects of civility, trivium.

#trivium #classicalschool

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Denise Levertov on the role of the poet, from a 1960 statement from our archive. Read more at Poets.org.

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I love Levertov's awakening view of poetry/writing, and her idea of content determining yet 'discovered only IN form' touches my resistance to programmatic comp instruction.

Shakespeare, sister, & Co cowrite new story #writinghopeworks @teach4JusticeNS

#icslife #writinghope

Malvolio's Achilles Heel

I am afraid the impossibility of teaching has begun: there is nothing in or behind many of the students to hold them up against a discipline. Tuesday we kill hogs, if the weather's right.

Wendell Berry in DISTANT NEIGHBORS, letters

#teaching #learning #@berrendsci #@professorAnne

Why read?

What is the real core curriculum?

#CCSS

A treasure lies hidden in the soul of Latin America, a spiritual treasure to be recognized as a gift for us who live in the illusion of power and self- control. It is the treasure of gratitude that can help us to break through the walls of our individual and collective self- righteousness and can prevent us from destroying ourselves and our planet in the futile attempt to hold onto what we consider our own. If I have any vocation in Latin America, it is the vocation to receive from the people the gifts they have to offer us and to bring these back up north for our own conversion and healing.

Henri Nouwen, "Gracias! The Latin American Journals" 2007

#liberation theology #Thanksgiving #writinghope #pedagogy

The clock of Frederick the Great is said to have stopped when he died--But did it? Maybe it was the other way around. Maybe the clock stopped first, and suddenly, without his companion's genial tock, the old man lost the steadying beat marking out a regular rhythm for him, lost his step, stumbled over a gap in time and his inner ticker stopped.

Jay Griffiths, WILD TIME, 1999, in Lapham's Quarterly Fall 2014

#Time #@literaryjukebox @berrendsci

Late Henry James may be pearls, but when students yawn, that doesn’t make them swine.

PETER ELBOW Embracing Contraries

#allusions #sharingpassion

"in a grain of grammar, a world of hope"

...this beauty into which God has so utterly gone? INTO which, rather than FROM which: in a grain of grammar, a world of hope. Christian Wyman, MY BRIGHT ABYSS: Meditation of a Modern Believer

#faith #art #poetry #Image #APLit

Aligning the agenda of the lesson with the agenda of the students is one of the greatest and most worthwhile challenges of teaching.

Ariel Sacks in Whole Novels for the Whole Class

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

My page of Elmore sites for report

Behind this group see the BB they created.

#inquiry based learning

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