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Dave Schaafsma
Sounds like you know what yr own answer is.... i do think tat the nature of storytelling/information could theoretically look more complex.
Dave Schaafsma
hmm, off the top of head i can't think of any, but i am sure google could help. . .:)
Dave Schaafsma
I just think of Foucault generally as something to read, such as Discipline and Punish, about prisons that you can connect to any institution, such as schools.
Dave Schaafsma
My reviewes tend to be a little personl, written in terms of my subjective experience with the issues the book explores. I do look at tradional elements such as plot and chracter and style, though.
Dave Schaafsma
I just saw this, Alan. I will look into it, promise.
Dave Schaafsma
I do! They were romantics, in the Wordsworth and Whitman tradition, free spirits. . .with some self-destructive tendencies/drugs/booze but there's a spirit of invention in their work, at its best.
Dave Schaafsma
I got a PhD at Michigan in 1990 in the Program in English and Education, which is to say I satisfied all of the requirements for the PhD in both areas, and since then I have been working in the field of English education, for the purpose of preparing students to become English teachers. We have four ""teaching methods" classes here at UIC, including an introductory course that speaks primarily to teaching in the city; a teaching of writing course; a teaching of literature course, and a final methods course that is usually focused on the teaching of drama, often specifically on teaching Shakespeare.I also teach courses in Young Adult Literature and Graphic novels, with an eye to how to integrate such texts into the English curriculum. Though I am now 69, I am still teaching.
Dave Schaafsma
I just saw this question and will look for it, I really will!
Dave Schaafsma
Just saw this and I try to keep it all to date, yep
Dave Schaafsma
Yes, though there are a couple of images that might offend someone, but I think it is great for young people.
Dave Schaafsma
People have been mourning the death of the novel for decades, and yet it persists, strong and as vital as ever. Will it save the world? Nope, but it can help us make it a better place, a more imaginative and possibly for empathetic one.
Dave Schaafsma
Marsha! Thanks for reading it! Glad you liked it! We'll talk about it when I get up there this fall some weekend!
Dave Schaafsma
i might read this, lincoln!
Dave Schaafsma
No problem! I liked it!
Dave Schaafsma
Short stories, mainly, but I alway read graphic novels and mysteries and classic literary fiction, too.s
Dave Schaafsma
My Dad's best friend was his brother Joe. They fished and hunted together and ran a business together, Schaafsma Aluminum, windows, doors, siding. The biz went bankrupt. My Dad blamed his brother for stealing from the cah drawer; they didn't speak for years, then just quietly resumed hunting and fishing. They never talked much, so there is no record of this. What happened and why?
Dave Schaafsma
My list f best graphic novels ever is on my book shelves, thanks.
Dave Schaafsma
You must have me confused with someone else! Where were you in high school when I never dated!? Thanks, though.
Dave Schaafsma
Just saw this but will read this!
Dave Schaafsma
Tracy, just saw this! Sorry for the late notification. I will be compiling my best picture books, read with my family, in November and December and will make that category public through my reviews. Thanks for your interest.
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