More than anything, I've been prepping for classes left and right. We headed into the second week of the academic term today. My Lit and Film class started watching Edward Scissorhands. It's decidedly not literary, but it's really effective for learning film terms. We're headed into "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" AND Burton's Sleepy Hollow film next.
My Science Fiction and Fantasy class is working on their folk and fairy tale unit. We've read oodles of "Little Red Riding Hood" variations including Perrault, the Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs, and even Roald Dahl. We also watched the Tex Avery cartoon, "Red Hot Riding Hood" and today we started the newest film version of Red Riding Hood, directed by Catherine Hardwick.
Whew! And did I mention our Academic Dean is on maternity leave? That adds a little fuel to the workerly fire. We've been BUSY.
Fun reading? Not so much, though I think the school reading has been pretty darn fun. I'll be wrapping up some loose ends this week (The Little Stranger) and diving into some new loose ends (Tout Sweet).
What have I missed?
My term starts on the 22nd, and I am so unprepared I'm starting to get twitches. My summer has been one long snooze fest regarding substantive work.
ReplyDeleteThis may be the semester I only go in with the first half of the term mapped out....
Sounds like a very busy time of things all round.
ReplyDeleteYay for teaching fairy tales! Wish I could be there for the class. You'll just have to fill us all in here :)
ReplyDeleteI'm tired just thinking about all you're doing!
ReplyDeleteYou are a busy girl! I bet your classes are so fun though. Would love to take your film class. How are you enjoying The Little Stranger?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear your thoughts on The Little Stranger when you finish. It is one that I've been wanting to read for some time now. Good luck keeping up with everything :)
ReplyDeleteI want to take your classes. :) Edward Sisscorhands is one of my favorite movies (has been since I was a kid). Any opportunity to watch it is fine by me!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your busy schedule!
Trisha, I know the feeling. I have one comp class that's new, and I'm teaching online out of a book I'm not terribly familiar with yet. I will have to power through that planning and probably only be half done. Ack!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Stu. Received the book, by the way. Can't wait to read!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Emily! It's great fun. Only downside: I have the same group of students at 7:15 and 9:15, four hours total. They're tired by the time I'm done with them.
ReplyDeleteKathy, me too! We didn't have much of a break between terms either, so I'm a little beaten down.
ReplyDeleteLoving The Little Stranger, Iliana. There's not a single thing I don't like about it so far. Yay!
ReplyDeleteLoving it so far, Samantha. Unless something goes horribly wrong, I think I'll have a good review to write.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Allie! I love the movie, too, as do most of my students. I thought it'd be a good opportunity to dig in right off the bat. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're teaching some fun classes! Hope you manage to find some time for your own reading!
ReplyDeleteWe still have a week and a half until our term starts, and I already feel crazy. Of course, even though I feel like I've been here more than two months, once the students arrive on campus, it will feel like a whole new job again! Enjoy:-)
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you have time to read, let alone blog, Andi! My hubby's not teaching until fall, so he has a bit of a break. Of course, he has his regular job and a book he's supposed to be writing, so it has't been too much of a break for him.
ReplyDeleteNeed to watch Edward Scissorhands again!
This is totally unrelated to anything you said in this post BUT I've just this second remembered I had a dream about your blog last night! I dreamed that I was going through Google Reader and you had a post about how Sarah Waters had a new book. But when I woke up I forgot I'd had the dream and only retained the low-level happy feeling from it. And just now I realized that the low-level happy feeling I had relating to Sarah Waters was based on something that wasn't real. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI hope everything calms down! This all sounds terribly hectic!
Thanks, Carrie! The start of a new term is always exciting. Having a good time meeting my students. :)
ReplyDeleteYour hubs is quite the busy guy, Les! How exciting that he's working on another book. And Edward Scissorhands is most definitely worth a re-watch. :)
ReplyDeleteJenny, I'm laughing at your comment. I think you're probbly the first person EVER to dream about my blog. lol
ReplyDeleteSorry that the new Sarah Waters book isn't real. I'd be pretty darn excited about that too!