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cool! can we do a group one to practice with one of the classics everybody reads like to kill a mockingbird or of mice and men?
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You could put up a skeleton of one up on goggle documents and give people permission to edit who want to help build it and then lots of people can help make one.
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but yeah - let's do that
It's similar but not exactly the same. I can't get used to typing on this really little keyboard on this computer here.
I'd be interested in participating in this.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K...
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for now, let's just get a list going, and maybe later we can do all the fancy annotations. first i just want to see what kind of topics come out of this.
I wasn't sure if my entries were saved, but it looks like they are still there. fyi I think that The Heart is a Lonely Hunter actually fits multiple elements from Of Mice and Men. It would fit under male friendship, as well as maybe depression era america or some topic related to disabilities, which I can't quite pinpoint yet. I'll have to give that particular topic more thought.
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just added the obvious but missing association
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Oooh, good one! Is it cheating to put a collection that uses a line from one of the author's poems?
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Yes, it's a William Stafford collection called "The Darkness is Deep" which is a line from his poem "A Ritual to Read Together." One of my favorite poems, incidentally.Really I only suggested it because I know I'm blanking on something obvious and it keeps coming to mind ;)
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I'm not familiar with that, actually
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Ah, just looked it up. I've read very little Eliot. Most of the poetry with which I'm familiar is contemporary.
fun! i added a few ... i feel there should be many more books with the theme "impossible choices" but none are coming to me.
I added Catch-22 to "impossible choices".AND! I made a Flannery O'Connor readers' path - in goggle! my very own self! with jo's content (so far; and some of mine - mine uses capitals)
Join us HERE.
the page is not editable. also, i use capitals appropriately in book titles.
I noticed that! :-)Lemme go check what i did wrong.
ETA: should work now.
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Of Mice and Men (other topics)Twilight (other topics)
this is pretty simple. books mean different things to different people. someone could read a book like Twilight and say "this is a book about vampires" and be looking for more books about vampires. someone else could read the same book, and think, "what a realistic portrayal of first love. i want more books like this." and a third person could think, "the best thing in this book are its references to the works of great literature." and be looking for a book-suggestion that plays on those themes. so a fun thing to do, to strengthen your RA skills, and even if you just want to think about books in a different way, is to take a book, isolate three or four different elements of it, and try to match those elements to other books. here is a link to one i did for school last semester - i can't get it in here for some reason. (twss) but it is way fancier than anything we would be doing here in the group: pictures and whatnot. but it will give you an idea of the kinds of things that reader's paths do.
(there was also a formatting failure when i was transferring it to google documents, so some of the tables spill over. oops.)
so if anyone else wants to try a more basic version of a reader's path, without all the bells and whistles, here is a thread for it.
i think it could be fun.
but i am a nerd.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v...