I picked up the Cecilia & Kate novels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer as a lark. There was a little Latin and Greek woven into the first one--but the second one has lots of nods to Classics! During most of the day things are too busy to do any leisure reading, but at the end of the day I've been reading them until I'm too tired to keep my eyes open, and then I squeeze in a few pages while drinking my morning coffee. It's nice to feel how the writers of these co-authored books must have been having fun.
I also like reading them because they remind me of a dear former student who loves Wrede's dragon series.
1/30: first results
This evening I read the first submissions of a new kind of writing assignment I'm trying with one of my classes this semester, and I am pleased with the results!
1/29: Nausicaa and Elizabeth
I love teaching book 6 of the Odyssey, and it was part of the reading assignment due today. I think (and hope!) some of the students enjoyed seeing how savvy Homer's Nausicaa is.
Then I finished listening to Kiersten White's Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein on my drive home this evening, another presentation of a young woman and compelling in its own way.
Then I finished listening to Kiersten White's Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein on my drive home this evening, another presentation of a young woman and compelling in its own way.
1/28: helping verbs
On their homework my beginning Latin students did a really good job of navigating all the helping verbs necessary in English to translate all the different tense/voice combinations they know.
1/27: tinkering
...with a flyer I designed last night. This morning I realized how I could re-arrange the words for a little better balance and focus.
1/26: deciding
...mid-morning to go flying in the afternoon with Chris. We've had a lot of rain lately, and the water in the fields reflected the blue of the sky.
1/25: pelicans
The white pelicans that migrate through each winter joined the other birds on the lake this morning. They don't stay long, and I'm always happy when I see them.
1/24: four kinds
...of birds spotted on my way to school this morning: cedar waxwings, a great blue heron, cormorants on the lake, and a quick blur of cardinal.
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