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How Reading Fiction Boosts Empathy | Culture on GOOD - 46 views

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  • Catherine Hainstock on 15 Mar 13
     
    Excellent article about the importance of reading fiction and empathy. A possible discussion topic with secondary students.
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 61, Stanley Elkin - 0 views

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  • It’s a rare joke that is funny. Only situations are funny.
    • Aelius Rusticus
      Aelius Rusticus on 25 May 12
       
      I asked my cat why he didn't help me with the elaborate vegetable soup I was preparing. When he had no quick answer, I suggested it was because he had no stock in it. My wit, pedestrian in the grand scheme, nonetheless amused me in the moment. Funny situation or funny word-play? or neither?
  • “The point of life was the possibility it always held out for the exceptional.”
  • to do the kinds of things which people don’t really do in real life but which they do do in fiction—to follow their own irrational—but sane—obsessions which, achieved, would satisfy them. Alas, these guys never catch up with their obsessions.
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  • There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think, “Jesus Christ, how many more months do I have left?” or years, I hope. I am totally preoccupied with death. I mean my own death. Barth, for example, has said that he comes from very good stock and expects to live a long time. Bill Gass thinks that one of the reasons he takes so much time writing his novels—it took him ten years to write Omensetter’s Luck—is that he has an infinite amount of time left to him. I don’t believe that I have an infinite amount of time left to me. Probably I would be a healthier man if I did believe it.
  • making a scratch on a stone?
  • it’s not a question of making imaginary leaps or having a third eye. It’s a question of using the two eyes I have—and looking hard and close at things.
  • That kind of observation can be taught. I also try to teach them how to recognize a situation, what legitimately is a situation and what isn’t. Those are the only things that can be taught. I can’t teach a person style. I can’t teach him to write, in terms of language. But I can teach them that things look like other things.
  • Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers, a collection of short stories (1966)
  • junk jewelry’s meteorological condition—its Fall line and Spring.
  • I don’t believe that less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.
  • particular existential writers?
  • the SELF takes precedence.
  • Camus
  • in the better restaurants.
  • Barth is wonderful, but the Barth I really admire is back there in the Golden Age of Barth.
  • Bellow I think is a magnificent writer—probably, with Gass, the best writer in America.
  • I think Gass is the best word-man in America.
  • There’s marvelous language in Pricksongs and Descants but it’s subsidiary to the experiment with structure. I tell you this for your own good, Bob. The reason I like Gass so much is that Gass is not fucking around with structure. He is fucking around with language. That to me is legitimate and acceptable, and the furthest out you can go is the best place to be. That’s what’s so magnificent about Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote very conventional plays, but the language wasn’t conventional.
  • the great gift of fiction—is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
  • palimpsest of metaphor right there on the page. One gets a notion of the conceit and one is inspired to work with it as a draftsman might work with some angle that he is interested in getting down correctly.
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New Forms, but People Will Always Read - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • Fiction brings us the news of ourselves, as literature always has and always will. That’s “entertainment,” in its deepest and most satisfying form. That’s pleasure, meaning, passion, glimpses of profoundest truth, the salvation of art. “The Jungle” may have sparked reform, but I daresay “Mrs. Dalloway” has changed more people’s lives.
  • But as long as people use language, tell stories and want to know about themselves, they will read fiction. The novel is a sturdy old contraption that continues to outlive its mourners.
  • Susan Dineen on 07 Jun 12
     
    This entire Room for Debate is worth reading.   Would be worthwhile to check out at the beginning of the year.
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Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk - 42 views

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  • Kate Tabor on 20 Feb 10
     
    Writers give advice - re: writing fiction - part 1
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Book: Dare to be different by @WillRyan3 - 13 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 09 Feb 18
     
    "Let me introduce you to Brian. Brian is a (fictional) primary school head teacher in England, UK. Well, maybe not fictional, as many working in schools will relate to the story created by Will Ryan in his 'Dare to be Different' book. Following the internal dialogues, reflections and incidents that Brian is faced with on a daily basis, the story unfolds telling how an individual can strive to take back ownership of what happens in the classroom and build vibrant curriculum with which to hook the imaginations of pupils. How? Will has cleverly inserted over 100 tips based on exciting primary practice, along with nearly fifty significant ideas to strengthen leadership, and accompanied a similar number of inspiring quotations throughout the story that encourages head-teachers to be brave and follow their own rules for what is best for that school community."
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CISPA: An Alternate Future Where Your Personal Privacy No Longer Exists - rgesthuizen@g... - 32 views

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 May 12
     
    "(fictional story) Last week the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a follow-up bill to SOPA that wants to erode your personal privacy. The bill, itself, is palatable enough that Facebook and Microsoft gave it their seal of approval, and it's already got a kick start towards passing into law. So what would life be like if CISPA were part of our reality?"
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The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com - 6 views

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  • The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto (and a published novelist), has proposed that reading produces a vivid simulation of reality, one that “runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers.” Fiction — with its redolent details, imaginative metaphors and attentive descriptions of people and their actions — offers an especially rich replica. Indeed, in one respect novels go beyond simulating reality to give readers an experience unavailable off the page: the opportunity to enter fully into other people’s thoughts and feelings.
  • Brianna Crowley on 22 Mar 12
     
    Science is supporting the idea of descriptive, narrative passages as providing different brain stimulation from simply nonfiction or informative reading. 
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Speculative Poetry: Past, Present, and Future by Richard H. Fay | Abandoned Towers Maga... - 20 views

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      Mariusz Leś on 14 Oct 13
       
      Is it poetry?
  • Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Ray Bradbury, one of the masters of the science fiction or science fantasy genre, also wrote speculative poetry. In 2008 he was named the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s latest Grand Master
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  • In 1995 Tom Brink laid out the rules for scifaiku in The Scifaiku Manifesto, but science fiction haiku had been around at least since the publication of Karen Anderson’s “Six Haiku” in 1962.
  • Scifaikuest
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The Art of Memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Art of Memory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the general topic known as "Ars memoriae" or "the Art of Memory", see Art of memory. The Art of Memory Author(s) Frances A. Yates Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Routledge and Kegan Paul Publication date 1966 Media type Print (book) Pages 400 ISBN 0-226-95001-8 OCLC Number 42905743  Preceded by Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition The Art of Memory is a 1966 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending with Gottfried Leibniz and the early emergence of the scientific method in the 17th century. See also [edit] Method of loci John Crowley Art of Memory
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Fresh Hell What's behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers? - 36 views

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  • anonymous on 14 Oct 10
     
    "Fresh Hell What's behind the boom in dystopian fiction for young readers?"
  • anonymous on 14 Oct 10
     
    a few months old...still a great reminder!
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Text to Text | 'The Giver' and 'The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction' - NYTimes.com - 59 views

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  • ideas for connecting it to a larger discussion about the popularity of dystopian literature, as well as options for going further
  • Key Questions: Why are dystopian novels so popular among young adults right now?
  • What can dystopian fiction show or teach us that, perhaps, other kinds of stories cannot
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  • In this forum, seven experts discuss the questions, Why do bestselling young adult novels seem darker in theme now than in past years? What’s behind this dystopian trend, and why is there so much demand for it?
  • Connecting “The Giver” to Other Dystopian Literature
  • Censorship and the Novel
  • An Ending for “The Giver”
  • Margaret FalerSweany on 19 Sep 14
     
    New York Times discussion of why young adults read dystopian stories such as "The Giver." The Author talks about the book and a panel of 8 experts discuss dystopian literature. Exercises are provided that students can use when studying such stories and novels.
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Standardised testing - Who's at fault? System, teacher or student? Pt 2 Teacher/Student - 0 views

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  • Mark Gleeson on 28 Feb 13
     
    So while it is an exaggerated work of fiction, lets look to Miss Bonkers and the school in Diffendoofer for guidance. Yes we need standardised testing to check progress and assess learning. Yes we need to see if our students are performing to a standard that is accepted across the country. But we do not have to teach the content of a test or how to take a test. We need to teach them how to THINK.
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Confession: Falling for QR Codes « Red Pen Confessions - 110 views

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  • Brianna Crowley on 02 Jan 13
     
    High school English teacher shares how she plans on using QR codes to switch to a whole fiction approach to novels and literature in the classroom. 
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PIZZAZ, Creative Writing & Storytelling, Opp-Beckman - 3 views

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  • Marc Patton on 27 Jun 12
     
    Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry | Fiction | Bag of Tricks.
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Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels : NPR - 3 views

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  • anonymous on 08 Aug 12
     
    A comprehensive list for us to use in our classrooms or for the students to use when looking for books to read!  Book Report List???
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