2/3: beginning
...The Odyssey in the Myth class. It's the first time I'm using Emily Wilson's translation, and though I've been glad to teach Robert Fagles' translation in the past, it's good to have a change. I also had to change the first day of readings to start to make up for last week's cancellations due to weather. We read both Book 1 and Book 2 for today (instead of just Book 1). That worked well and took us comfortably just to the end of class.
2/1: being glad
...that I found Ruth Manning-Sanders' short story "The Skull" so that students could compare it with Jon Klassen's picturebook The Skull. (Klassen was inspired by Manning-Sanders' short story but takes the tale in different directions.) I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class discussion.
1/31: reading
...The Book about Moomin, Mymble, and Little My out loud to Chris as just a little pleasure this morning.
1/29: dandelions
...on a card in the mail. It was an unexpected and very welcome note, and the fact that the card had dandelions on it put a smile on my face even before I read the message.
1/27: listening
...to 2 pieces by Pancrace Royer which were mentioned in a novel I was reading today: Le Vertigo and La Marche des Scythes.
Later in the evening I texted my brother about them, and he suggested that I compare La Marche des Scythes to Yngwie Malmsteen's (metal) guitar music, a connection I never would have made.
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