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Mrs. Z.'s Room: Shall I Compare Thee, Pygmalion?
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Shall I Compare Thee, Pygmalion? My advanced students read a bit of Ovid's version of the Pygmalion story today, and in the process, I began to think about this translation of part of book 10 by Rolfe Humphries:. He [Pygmalion] made, with marvelous art, an ivory statue,. As white as snow, and gave it greater beauty. Than any girl could have, and fell in love. That of a virgin, truly, almost living,.
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: April 2008
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Sunday, April 20, 2008. Mrs Z on Wichita Kids Get Hooked on the Aeneid. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 edition of. The subject of the article was a method for introducing middle-school students to Vergil's. One critical piece to Crone-Koepsel's plan: do not announce anything about the fact that the class is going to start reading the. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Mrs Z on The Art of Reading Latin. Monday, April 14, 2008.
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: The Scarlet Letter
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Tuesday, September 9, 2008. This is a paragraph from the penultimate (next to last! Chapter of The Scarlet Letter:. Certainly does not see himself that way. The reintroduction of Hester, beside the scaffold no less, puts his exaltation into true perspective. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other blogs from our class. Augustine, Education, Truth and Youth. Shall I Compare Thee, Pygmalion?
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: Beowulf on Watch
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. In one of the best-known scenes from the recent film Beowulf,. The hero declares, "I've come to slay your monster." His crew stands behind him, apparently united in purpose. Today, we want our heroes to be accompanied by a band of brave men- lesser men, perhaps, but true-hearted companions. What does it mean to be that lesser man, yet still brave? In Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf,.
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: Augustine, Education, Truth and Youth
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Augustine, Education, Truth and Youth. In 113.21 and 1.13.22 of the Confessions. Far be it from me to disagree with Augustine, who is more brilliant on his worst day than I am on my best. But I really believe that it is the other way around: the greatest value in learning the letters comes in the application to literature. For what do we learn from literature? So, Augustine, thank you for writing a t...
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: March 2008
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Monday, March 31, 2008. Mrs Z on The Hobbit. When Beorn arrives to finish the Battle of Five Armies near the end of The Hobbit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Other blogs from our class. Mrs Z on The Hobbit.
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: September 2008
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. In one of the best-known scenes from the recent film Beowulf,. The hero declares, "I've come to slay your monster." His crew stands behind him, apparently united in purpose. Today, we want our heroes to be accompanied by a band of brave men- lesser men, perhaps, but true-hearted companions. What does it mean to be that lesser man, yet still brave? In Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf,. Far be ...
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: Mrs. Z. on Wichita Kids Get Hooked on the Aeneid
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Sunday, April 20, 2008. Mrs Z on Wichita Kids Get Hooked on the Aeneid. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 edition of. The subject of the article was a method for introducing middle-school students to Vergil's. One critical piece to Crone-Koepsel's plan: do not announce anything about the fact that the class is going to start reading the. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other blogs from our class. Mrs Z on Red-Scarf Girl.
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Mrs. Z.'s Room: September 2009
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A dialectical journal, written for and with my high school writing students. Monday, September 21, 2009. Mystics, Matter, and Metaphor. The poet John Keats (subject of the new film Bright Star. Inspired the title of Richard Dawkins' book Unweaving the Rainbow. Breaking through the anaesthetic of familiarity is what poets do best. It is their business. But poets, too many of them and for too long, have overlooked the goldmine of inspiration offered by science. Dawkins writes as a scientist who wishes he c...
