![]() ![]() ![]() In an ideal world, students would engage in discussion for the sake of developing a better understanding of a novel. Encourage students to return to the text to find specific passages and quotations to support their opinions. ![]() Opinion-based questions can develop students’ critical thinking skills and help them relate to the issues raised by the novel on a personal level. Not all discussion questions need to have a “correct” answer. If students are hesitant to jump into the discussion, ask a few students to read their journals to get the conversation started. Having the students respond to Tangerine by Edward Bloor discussion questions as journal prompts is a good way to get the ideas flowing. Throughout the course of the novel, Paul learns to be more comfortable in his own skin he learns to stand up to his fears and he learns the truth about the childhood accident that damaged his sight. Because of a childhood accident, he is visually impaired and wears thick glasses. He faces drama in his own family with a bullying older brother, Erik, a dad who is too concerned with Erik’s future as a football star to pay much attention to Paul, and a mom who is just trying her best to hold them all together. Tangerine by Edward Bloor tells the story of Paul Fisher as he moves to a new home in Tangerine County, Florida. Using Tangerine by Edward Bloor discussion questions in the classroom can help your students develop their understanding of the book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’m very happy to say that it delivered! There was quite a lot of suspense along the way and I really appreciated the way in which June Hur decided to develop the main mystery plot. The Red Palace was such a good read! I was pretty excited to start this since the premise sounded right up my alley when it comes to mystery stories. ![]() “It is those you love that make a wretched life worth living.” When evidence begins to point to the Crown Prince himself as the murderer, Hyeon and Eojin must work together to search the darkest corners of the palace to uncover the deadly secrets behind the bloodshed. ![]() In her hunt for the truth, she encounters Eojin, a young police inspector also searching for the killer. Determined to prove her beloved teacher’s innocence, Hyeon launches her own secret investigation. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father’s approval.īut Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon’s closest friend and mentor. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to a bemused John Kempe, provides us with an autobiographical account of her own singular brand of affective piety - excessive weeping, lack of bodily control, compulsive travelling, visionary meditations - and the growth of what she regarded as an individual and privileged mystical relationship with Christ. Ī unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in 1934. Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to a bemused John Kempe, provides us with an autobiographical account of her own singular brand of affective piety - excessive weeping, lack of bodily control, compulsive travelling. ![]() A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in 1934. ![]() ![]() Thanks Donna, and again, I am sorry it took me so long to dive into Commissario Brunetti!ĭressed to Kill, the 3rd book in Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti Series starts with a body found behind a slaughterhouse in Marghera. Also a new character, Elettera who is the secretary for Vice-Questorre Patta (who himself has problems!!). Here we are kept waiting until the very end for justice to prevail, or at least we hope it will! Filled with local Venetian landmarks, humor, and murder, we find Brunetti at his very best. We have quite a few deaths that derive from this initial murder and all of them seem to be connected to a Morality League, but yet there is no physical evidence of this. Heck we do not even know that much for almost the first 100 pages. ![]() ![]() Was he a cross-dressing whore? Was he a closet gay man? What is the story behind this man, and who is he. What makes this different is that the man is wearing red womens shoes and a red dress. This time he is on the trail of a murderer who has killed a man who is found in the field outside a slaughterhouse. ![]() ![]() Just another super job with Commissario Brunetti. I LOVE THIS SERIES!!! Set in Venice, I love the plots and characters. Donna Leon, I am sorry! I apologize for not reading any of your books until this year (2020). ![]() ![]() It is unlikely, were The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Wordsworth, that its central figure would have suffered so miserably. The synchronistic events of the poem take place on a bed of poetic expressions of the primordial images mediating between the Mariner's psyche and the world outside, resulting in his inner growth through the process of individuation, wherein, the Mariner comes to the realization that nature and he form an inseparable part of a greater system which is unified through the flow of an invisible spirit-the collective unconscious. ![]() The causally unrelated but meaningful succession of events in the course of the poem, finding expression through the archetypes, helps the Mariner get a deeper insight into the universe and further his movement in the process of individuation-the quest for self-realization. ![]() The theory of synchronicity, being the principle explaining the concurrence of psychic states and external events which bear no causal relationship, could be employed to bring up a novel interpretation of the poem. As a Romantic poet who was especially interested in the workings of the mind, Coleridge, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, has dealt with notions, ideas, and images that lend themselves to a Jungian reading, specifically from the perspective of the principle of synchronicity which is to be the focus of this analysis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surely, Saramago is in a league that requires comparison with such writers, on the basis not only of skill but subject matter, too. In fact, it is fitting that Camus and Kafka come to mind in considering this book, if only as a kind of speed rating. For instance, in "The Metamorphosis," when Gregor Samsa wakes up and finds that he is an enormous cockroach, he doesn't say, "My God, look at me, look at these plates and brown things on my chest," but, in effect, "How the hell am I going to get to work?" The trick of all of this, of course, is that when the author refuses to react to his characters' circumstances, the reader does. ![]() Camus points out that Kafka's characters seem so bizarre precisely because they accept their unusual if not outlandish circumstances as being perfectly ordinary. Reviewed by Craig Nova, whose most recent novel is "The Universal Donor."Ī few pages into Jose Saramago's "Blindness," I was reminded of Albert Camus' essay on Franz Kafka. By Jose Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero ![]() ![]() Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers-and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before-these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.īut Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. ![]() ![]() Chain of Gold is a Shadowhunters novel.Ĭordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. ![]() First print edition contains special content, including bonus art and a new short story!įrom #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in a brand-new trilogy where evil hides in plain sight and love cuts deeper than any blade. The Shadowhunters must catch a killer in Edwardian London in this dangerous and romantic sequel to the 1 New York Times bestselling novel Chain of Gold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re enjoying the podcast, please do leave us a review or share an episode. I have a hunch that listening deeply is always a good place to start. But rather than challenge them, I’m seeking to understand how they’ve got to where they are. ![]() ![]() Guests come from a huge range of perspectives on politics, religion, and everything else, many of which, of course, are different from my own positions. And I asked them to reflect on what is sacred to them in the broadest sense, their own approach to how they use their platform or their voice, and what they’ve learned about the many ways we can if we’re not careful, divide and even dehumanise each other. Every episode, I speak to someone with some role in shaping our public conversations: from journalists, to poets, to faith leaders, from YouTube stars to playwrights, to visual artists. My name is Elizabeth Oldfield, and this is a podcast about our deepest values, the ideas that shape us, and how we can better understand people different from ourselves. Elizabeth Oldfield speaks to icon carver Jonathan Pageau ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the first attempt on Cole’s life nearly kills them both, Marcus realizes that Cole is in real danger, and Cole is forced to reveal everything.Almost everything. But when a stalker threatens to kill him-and to hurt anyone who stands in his way-his past closes in on him, and he’s not sure where to turn.The last thing Marcus wants to do is take on a charity case, and to say that he and Cole don’t see eye to eye at first is putting things mildly. That is, until he gets involved in a case that grabs him by the throat and won’t let go.Cole Jacobs left behind his old life as a rent boy to make a name for himself rebuilding high-end and vintage cars and bikes. Investigations are quick and easy, and they don’t give him the nightmares his days as a CIA operative did. The jobs Marcus Lowry works for at Phoenix, Inc. ![]() |