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lunabee341. I had my post-tenure review today over Zoom. It went well. I'm crossing my fingers for the same positive reception to my application for full professor in the fall.
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Friday: Howliday Inn chapter 6; draw a picture of all the dogs crowding around Chester and Harold. Write--what are Max and Georgette planning to do?
Monday: Howliday Inn chapter 7; draw a picture of Harold by Chester's empty cage; write--what does Harrison say happened to Chester?
Fiona's teacher is giving them more robust online work now, so she's doing twenty minutes a day on two sites, one for reading and one for math. She's also being given an art assignment and a writing assignment by her teacher now.
Tuesday: Howliday Inn chapter 8; draw a picture of the food bowl message; write--how does Harold's investigation go?
3. We saw a box turtle in the ditch. Yay!!
4. John Oliver achieved his epic painting of rat pornography. The acquisition certainly brought joy to our household. :)
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Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings by Juana Inés de la Cruz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this in an American Women's Lit class as an undergrad. I really enjoyed the intro about Sor Juana's life and her prose apologia of women as intellectual beings (she was a pretty brave badass in championing the equal intellectual capabilities of women and their God-given right to exercise them). I find her play about the conversion of the native people to be interesting; she highlights the similarities between their religion and Christianity. I also like some of her shorter poems, especially the ones in which she is being funny or poking fun. Her magnum opus, though, is a slog; it's an interminable poem that showcases her knowledge of science and classical literature, and it is extremely boring.
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this; it's a collection of retellings of Asian fairytales, and some of them are retold in really fascinating ways (all the traditional remix options here: new setting, new time period, new tone, new POV, missing scene). It's written for a YA audience, but with the exception of two stories, I don't think it reads like a YA collection. I particularly enjoy the stories that contain science fiction elements.
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Friday: Howliday Inn chapter 6; draw a picture of all the dogs crowding around Chester and Harold. Write--what are Max and Georgette planning to do?
Monday: Howliday Inn chapter 7; draw a picture of Harold by Chester's empty cage; write--what does Harrison say happened to Chester?
Fiona's teacher is giving them more robust online work now, so she's doing twenty minutes a day on two sites, one for reading and one for math. She's also being given an art assignment and a writing assignment by her teacher now.
Tuesday: Howliday Inn chapter 8; draw a picture of the food bowl message; write--how does Harold's investigation go?
3. We saw a box turtle in the ditch. Yay!!
4. John Oliver achieved his epic painting of rat pornography. The acquisition certainly brought joy to our household. :)
5.
Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings by Juana Inés de la CruzMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this in an American Women's Lit class as an undergrad. I really enjoyed the intro about Sor Juana's life and her prose apologia of women as intellectual beings (she was a pretty brave badass in championing the equal intellectual capabilities of women and their God-given right to exercise them). I find her play about the conversion of the native people to be interesting; she highlights the similarities between their religion and Christianity. I also like some of her shorter poems, especially the ones in which she is being funny or poking fun. Her magnum opus, though, is a slog; it's an interminable poem that showcases her knowledge of science and classical literature, and it is extremely boring.
View all my reviews
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen OhMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this; it's a collection of retellings of Asian fairytales, and some of them are retold in really fascinating ways (all the traditional remix options here: new setting, new time period, new tone, new POV, missing scene). It's written for a YA audience, but with the exception of two stories, I don't think it reads like a YA collection. I particularly enjoy the stories that contain science fiction elements.
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Date: 2020-04-16 04:17 pm (UTC)Oh, don't worry. It's weird for us, too. LOL