The book feels like music, like an old experimental rock record, right down to its format: read “Side A” and then flip over the book to read “Side B,” which reframes the central characters in surprising ways. It’s not enough that making art can lead to destitution and poverty: now it needs to lead, quite possibly, to death? Its central characters are young people trying to make their way as musicians. A rock novel (“The Last Rock Novel,” it promises), Destroy All Monsters follows an epidemic: rock bands are being murdered on stage all throughout the country. Even though he’s stepped up to New York publishing (the Major League?), his writing has lost none of its verve, its edge. No longer with Two Dollar Radio, Jackson found a new home at a similarly adventurous publisher, FSG. Needless to say, I was eager to read his follow up, Destroy All Monsters, out last month. How many debut novels can claim that? Clearly Jackson was onto something. It came with a blurb from Don DeLillo, after all. But it also felt somewhat of the mainstream, and not in a bad way. It felt so of its moment, in terms of its literary heft: it was an experimental novel that was still friendly, beautifully written and designed, an exemplar of “indie lit” at a moment when independent presses were on the rise gloriously (its publisher, Two Dollar Radio, sort of cornered the market on this kind of adventurous literature back then). When I read Jeff Jackson’s 2013 novel Mira Corpora, it blew my mind.
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There are always new threads to pull at every time we revisit an old tale. We are never done with the stories of the Greek gods. Despite this, Catherine still enacted several egalitarian policies and made frequent claims to be acting in the name of the ‘common good’ an Enlightenment idea purported by Rousseau, Montesquieu and several offers. The Russian tsars were bound by no constitution and though they did have advisors, Russia had no formal State Council until Alexander I created one in 1810 meaning that there were few checks in place to restrain her absolute power. Catherine can be seen as an archetypal example of an enlightened absolutist, due to the nature of the empire she ruled. A system of rule, wherein the monarch retains absolute autocratic power over their subjects, whilst at the same time applying the principles of the Enlightenment to the task of governance. Catherine is one of the final examples of, so called, ‘enlightened absolutism’ or ‘enlightened despotism’. The Second ‘Revolutionary Figure’ we shall be assessing in this series is Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia from 1762-1796. But these girls weren't dangerous to others: they were hurting themselves. Friends had questioned my decision to visit the ward. The girls on the other side of the door were all confined there because of dangerous things they'd done with sharp objects: shards of glass, box cutters, knives. I entered the locked ward with some trepidation. (Ages 14 and older) -Emilie Coulter From the Author: Konigsburg's Silent to the Bone, McCormick's Cut expertly tackles an unusual response to harrowing adolescent trouble. Along with Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak and E.L. The hope and hard-won progress that comes at the conclusion of the novel is believable and heartening for any teen reader who feels alone in her (or his) angst. Callie suffers from a less familiar teen problem-she cuts herself to relieve her inner frustrations and guilt. Patricia McCormick's first novel is authentic and deeply moving. Slowly, she begins emerging from her miserable silence, ultimately understanding the role her dysfunctional family played in her brother's health crisis. Although initially she refuses to speak, her individual and group therapy sessions trigger memories and insights. Burdened with the pressure of believing she is responsible for her brother's illness, 15-year-old Callie begins a course of self-destruction that leads to her being admitted to Sea Pines, a psychiatric hospital the "guests" refer to as Sick Minds. It can be spanned in 2- or 3-weeks’ time. The lesson takes approximately 4-5 lesson hours to be implemented in the classroom. It connects the educational curriculum fields of Art, History of Art, ICT, Language and social media. The scenario can be applied to students between 11 and 13 years old (early teens). ICT tools are also used to create the meme and to upload it on the social platform to be shared, tagged and commented. ICT skills are needed to search for information about the painters and the paintings themselves. The help of technology is crucial for this scenario. This way, the new products (memes) could express new meanings and become much more appealing. After looking at them carefully, students can reflect on both their content and appearance.įor this lesson, pupils must combine new language codes such as comics creation, scripting, tagging. The lesson also aims to support students to find original ways to put the classical paintings into a new context. The aim of this project is to help students familiarize themselves with classical European Art. They find them rather outdated and old fashioned. The suggested learning scenario tries to face the fact that today’s students do not appreciate enough the great masterpieces of European painting. Reconnecting students to European painting This association lasted 17 years, gained him national exposure, and coined the catchphrase "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads for Flit. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. |