tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post3072236035526373705..comments2024-03-24T09:36:51.494-04:00Comments on delagar: Why I love the Internetdelagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-91159139719333029632021-03-26T19:04:59.435-04:002021-03-26T19:04:59.435-04:00It does!It does!delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-75566392578235424742021-03-26T18:25:09.957-04:002021-03-26T18:25:09.957-04:00Thanks for linking "The Semplica-Girl Diaries...Thanks for linking "The Semplica-Girl Diaries"! It has a "The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" vibe.Foscavistanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-51650093515215027252021-03-26T08:49:14.256-04:002021-03-26T08:49:14.256-04:00I think all those poems are hilarious! It's a...I think all those poems are hilarious! It's also pretty hilarious that a giant container ship stuck itself in a sand and stone wall for days. Jenny F. Scientisthttp://naturalscientist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-40901871772216034642021-03-25T15:03:36.288-04:002021-03-25T15:03:36.288-04:00I used to assign some of the slave narratives coll...<br />I used to assign some of the slave narratives collected by the WPA in my World Lit class, but yes, exactly, students wouldn't read them -- or at least claimed they "couldn't" read them. <br /><br />I always suspected some latent racism there, given that most of them spoke dialects nearly identical to that used in the narratives.delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-77747474001680446732021-03-25T14:38:44.927-04:002021-03-25T14:38:44.927-04:00I love "The Semplica Girl Diaries"! But ...I love "The Semplica Girl Diaries"! But my students would rebel. This semester I finally gave up on trying to get my American Lit students to read a Charles Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" because they refuse to attempt the sections in dialect, and then they miss the satire entirely. Frustrating.Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.com