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Books

Which Book Would You Read?

9780194792547Barchester Towers

Author: Anthony Trollope

ISBN: 9780194792547

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop’s Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, gentle Mr Harding, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen noisy children. This classic comic story is Trollope’s most famous novel.

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9780194791830.OU.0.mThe Scarlet Letter

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

ISBN: 9780194791830

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover – the father of her child?

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10 Famous Authors Discuss To Kill a Mockingbird

Many famous authors, near and far, have been affected by Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. See what they have to say about the book below.

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“Few contemporary literary American novels have such a sweep and fewer have the confidence to take on social issues in the way Harper Lee does. Much literary writing today about racism is cloaked in irony or in so much lyricism that it becomes gaseous. Lee refuses to hide behind aesthetics. Her writing is so beautiful, so steady and even and limpid, that she might have evaded confronting these tribalisms head-on, but she doesn’t.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“From my sister’s nightstand, I grabbed the paperback she’d been yapping about, To Kill a Mockingbird. The cover had a Technicolor picture of Gregory Peck and some little girl in overalls. I opened the book and read the first sentence, ‘When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.’ Three days later, I finished the book. A novel had never kidnapped me before. Until Mockingbird, I’d had no idea that literature could exert so strong a power.” –Wally Lamb 

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“I remember reading a portion of it thinking, reluctantly, this is really good. But I couldn’t admit it… It’s hard to imagine Empire Falls being written without To Kill a Mockingbird, because I don’t think Tick could have existed without Scout.” —Richard Russo

“Every time I go back, I’m impressed more by the simplicity of the prose . . . Although it’s plainly written from the point of view of an adult, looking back through a child’s eyes, there’s something beautifully innocent about the point of view, and yet it’s very wise.” —Mark Childress

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“I promised myself that when I grew up and I was a man, I would try to do things as good and noble as what Atticus had done for Tom Robinson.” —Scott Turow

To Kill a Mockingbird is probably in the top three of books like that, where you utterly live in the book, and walk around in the book, and know everyone down to the ground in the book, and then leave, and then inevitably come back. I can’t imagine anyone I like reading To Kill a Mockingbirdand then not rereading it.” —Anna Quindlen

“I think it is our national novel.” —Oprah Winfrey

Professionals

5 Ways You Can Look Like a Millionaire

Saying you would dress better if you made more money is a sad excuse to be sloppy, says image consultant Sylvie di Giusto, who has consulted with executives and corporations like McKinsey and BMW through her company, Executive Image Consulting.

You can gain an air of confidence and stature typically associated with the wealthy regardless of how much money you make.

With the help of Di Giusto, along with inspiration from business author, Vicky Oliver, a guide was created to help you look and act like a millionaire, even if you’re not.

Students, Teachers, Training & Conferences

საინტერესო სიტყვები და გამონათქვამები – You can’t always get what you want

“You can’t always get what you want.”

What does it mean?

Don’t whine and complain if you don’t get what you wanted.

Where does it come from?

It’s actually a song written in 1968 by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

Of the song, Jagger said: “‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ was something I just played on the acoustic guitar—one of those bedroom songs. It proved to be quite difficult to record because Charlie (the band’s drummer) couldn’t play the groove and so Jimmy Miller (the band’s producer) had to play the drums. I’d also had this idea of having a choir, probably a gospel choir, on the track, but there wasn’t one around at that point. Jack Nitzsche, or somebody, said that we could get the London Bach Choir and we said, ‘That will be a laugh.'”

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Books

Which Book Would You Read?

To Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

ISBN: 9780099466734

Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel—a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus’s children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930’s.

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The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye

Author: J.D. Salinger

ISBN: 9780241950432

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it’s relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ‘phony’ aspects of society, and the ‘phonies’ themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Lazy in style, full of slang and swear words, it’s a novel whose interest and appeal comes from its observations rather than its plot intrigues (in conventional terms, there is hardly any plot at all). Salinger’s style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as though you too have seen through the pretences of the American Dream and are growing up unable to see the point of living in, or contributing to, the society around you. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood, it deals with society, love, loss, and expectations without ever falling into the clutch of a cliché.

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Theme of the Week: Harper Lee

Image Source: Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images

Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist widely known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird which deals with the racism she observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Though Lee only published this single book for half a century, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.

Teachers, Training & Conferences

9 Humor Strategies to Use in the Classroom

Image Source: www.travelblog.org, Classroom fun, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Even if you are “humor challenged,” there are things you can do to lighten the load and dissipate the clouds in your classroom. Just remember, above all, that sarcasm has no place in the school. Only “no hurt” humor is acceptable.

  1. Laugh at yourself — when you do something silly or wrong, mention it and laugh at it
  2. Add humorous items to tests, homework or class assignments — even at the University, one of my favorite options when I give multiple choice exams requiring students to identify pairs of psychologists is Calamari and Endive. It always gets smiles, and helps to break exam tension
  3. Keep a quotable quotes bulletin board or corner in your room — look for humor quotes and post them and encourage your students to do the same
  4. Keep a cartoon file, and have an area where you can display one or two a day on a rotating basis, with students making the choice
  5. Have Joke Friday — ask students to bring in jokes to share, either to start the day on Friday, to make a transition between lunch and the following class, or at the end of the day (be sure to screen the jokes in advance, of course)
  6. Ask students to try to build humor into occasional writing assignments — that will start a conversation about what it funny, how they know something is funny, why different people find some things funny but some things are funny to almost everyone
  7. Have a funny hat day, or mismatched socks day, or some other funny dress-up time
  8. Build creative and humorous thinking by showing cartoons and picture without captions and asking students to create them — individually, in pair-shares, or small groups
  9. Ask students to bring in books they think are funny. Ask them to talk about why, and to use examples from the book.

Let’s add some more enjoyment to school. We don’t need guffaws — a smile and a little levity can go a long way. It’s time for us educators to take humor more seriously.

Books

Inspirational Quotes

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Students

What Would Happen If Bees Went Extinct?

Most people, who think about bees, think about getting stung. But that doesn’t do these incredible creatures justice. Bees fly through their life in search of flowers. They do so to collect pollen, which is a source of protein, for their hive and developing offspring.

In the process, a dusting of pollen clings to hairs on the bee’s body, where it is then transferred to the stigmas and stamens of plants. This ensures the next generation of fruits, nuts, and vegetables—not to mention the abundance of beautiful wildflowers.

Bees are quite literally champion pollinators: they are responsible for 70 percent of the fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds that we consume on a daily basis. To learn more, check out the video by AsapSCIENCE.

Students, Teachers, Training & Conferences

საინტერესო სიტყვები და გამონათქვამები – Felicity

What does Felicity mean?

It is a noun and it’s the state of being happy.

How do you pronounce it?

/fɪˈlɪsɪti/

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fe·lic·i·ty

Where does it come from?

From the 14th century: in Latin felicitat.

How do you use it?

The newlywed couple was in pure felicity on their honeymoon.