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(Since there seems to be a movement to DW for fannish and personal interaction, I figured I should get a bit more content up.)
Anyway, teaching is such a roller coaster. My British Lit class is working on the Victorians. The standards for this unit include doing some research about the period and then writing about how these aspects of daily life influenced the literature. One of my students is writing about the rise of children's literature, two are writing about ghosts and spiritualism, and one is writing about beards.
Yes, beards. He is very insistent. He doesn't want to talk about facial hair in general because that is too too general. Nope, it's beards and "side beards," which a normal person would call sideburns or mutton chops. I think he's trying to write about how a character's outward appearance reflected their inner life, but he also wanted an excuse to google images of Victorian men and their beards.
I really love this class.
Anyway, teaching is such a roller coaster. My British Lit class is working on the Victorians. The standards for this unit include doing some research about the period and then writing about how these aspects of daily life influenced the literature. One of my students is writing about the rise of children's literature, two are writing about ghosts and spiritualism, and one is writing about beards.
Yes, beards. He is very insistent. He doesn't want to talk about facial hair in general because that is too too general. Nope, it's beards and "side beards," which a normal person would call sideburns or mutton chops. I think he's trying to write about how a character's outward appearance reflected their inner life, but he also wanted an excuse to google images of Victorian men and their beards.
I really love this class.
