tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727071486598408930.post3706388480596105963..comments2023-08-08T09:25:32.703-04:00Comments on It's A Beautiful Day in the Bloggerhood: Blasphemy From Your Lit TeacherBeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09568390469952224951noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5727071486598408930.post-38470743282451831292010-03-30T18:40:09.653-04:002010-03-30T18:40:09.653-04:00Great post! I'm not versed in Shakespeare eit...Great post! I'm not versed in Shakespeare either and have a REALLY hard time understanding him so I shudder at the idea when one day I'm teaching high school instead of junior high and actually have to teach him. MUST take a Shakespeare class before that happens. <br /><br />I did read Catcher in the Rye in high school and LOVED it. And when we read it in Baker's class last year, I really liked it, but I didn't love it as much as I did in high school. So that's strange. I guess the reason I liked it so much is because it was the first book I read that actually sounded like a real person rather than symbols and metaphors behind every sentence (even though there were still many of those things in Catcher).<br /><br />I am a poetry lover, but not old school poetry. I love contemporary poets like Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, and slam poets like Taylor Mali (especially because he used to be a teacher and just about all his poems are about teaching). Have you tried giving contemporary poets a chance? I think it's much more accessible than old school poets like Whitman, Thoreau, and their ilk. <br /><br />Reading contemporary poetry is akin to reading modern YA lit like Speak and The Hunger Games in class rather than unaccessible classics that no teenager could ever relate to.Beth S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06944635942712994937noreply@blogger.com