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Outlaw Bible – Poetry? Literature?

2005, Books in Bed, Fiction, Homeschool, Poetry, Reading Lists /


I am not sure how it happened but somehow the Outlaw Bible of American Literature ended up on my library reserve list. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago but didn’t look at it until today. Now I’m wondering if some of this and some pieces from the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry wouldn’t be good choices for Michelle this year.

Have any of you read either of these? Know anyone who has? I’m tempted to say we need to own both of these…

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Daily Dose of Help – Donate

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I’ve been shopping on ebay this morning. I’ve been shopping the auctions that are set up to donate to the American Red Cross. Surf over and place your bids or set up your own charity auction!

Kerry mentioned this the other day, if you’re thinking about joining the ranks of podcasters, consider Libsyn. If you donate $50 to the American Red Cross, they’ll give you a year worth of podcasting service for free!

What are you waiting for? Go shop, go podcast – do something!

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Daily Dose of Health – Podcasts

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Kerry and Jackie managed to do their fourth Crohn’s Talk podcast even though they were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. We’re glad they made it through ok.

The fourth podcast was really SHORT, what’s up with that? We need another ten minutes! 😉 Jackie talked about prepping for an emergency and that’s some information worth thinking about NOW rather than once a disaster hits, ya know?

I’ve got to agree with Carrie about the worms – if that’s a cure, they can keep the cure. YUK! The bacterial treatment though, that’s interesting. I don’t think the results thus far are all that promising though. But, like Jackie said, all tests and ideas are good because they may lead to other tests and trials and ideas and that’s how you ultimately find a cure!

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High School Literature

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Michelle is home! Besides the phone ringing off the hook, kids going in and out at all times, the interrupting of our weekend naps and the smell of popcorn this means that we’re back in homeschool mode!

Michelle did school all summer via FLVS but she didn’t do a full blown “curriculum”. The problem with her being gone all summer is that we didn’t really get much planning done for the year. TW and I have some ideas – journaling and world religion – but Michelle really needs to give her input into the literature she’s going to read for the next nine months.

We’ve got some books on the list, leftover from last year, and a couple that she did choose during the homeschool fair in May but we’re still short a good six books or so.

Here’s what we know Michelle will be reading:

  • A Clockwork Orange
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Anthem
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Jane EyreWhat would you want a 10th grader to read if you could choose anything at all? (We need a biography, we need some poetry recommendations – I can’t take another year of Plath – and we haven’t chosen any Shakespeare yet for this year. Keep those in mind as you’re making your suggestions!)

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    Daily Dose of Help – Donate

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    CD baby has a gallery of indie artists who are donating all of the profits from the sale of their cds to the American Red Cross! Get over there today and do some early holiday shopping and send a wee bit more money to those in need!

    Check out the photos and prints on Flickr that are up for auction! If you win the auction, you make a donation to the Red Cross, send proof of your donation and you will receive the print. This is another great way to donate just a little bit more to this cause, just don’t bid on the prints I want. 😉

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    Buy a Book and Help Hurricane Victims

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    I’ve been reading The Examining Room of Dr Charles for quite some time and I love his blog. He posted a few days about his upcoming book and then quickly pulled the post down. I wondered what THAT was all about but then he put the post back up and told us that he would be donating 25% of his profits to the American Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina when originally he had mentioned donating proceeds to Doctors Without Borders.

    I ordered the book first thing this morning. I probably would have ordered it anyway, but the fact that he’s making a generous donation surely didn’t hurt.

    Thanks Dr Charles, for a great blog and for making this pledge.

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    Daily Dose of Blogs – Happy Blog Day 2005

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    Blogday
    I’ve been thinking about Blog Day for almost a full month and everytime I thought I had found a blog that fit the criteria, I changed my mind. It was hard to find blogs by people who were really not like me. Seems odd, doesn’t it? I mean I’m a lesbian, I have six kids, I homeschool one and only one, I work from home in a job that very few people have, I hate sports and watch almost no television and I do not cook. Surely I could find lots of blogs that are not “like me”. Nope, it’s hard to find differences when you are really looking for them (which might be an lesson)

    After a month long search, here’s what I’ve got for you. Visit them, let me know what you think and let them know you stopped by!

    The Happy Catholic I found this blog via my friend Shelly’s blogroll and I peek in there every now and then to see what’s going on. The Happy Catholic is really nothing like me, except she has good taste in movies and TV. Other than that, we probably disagree. Still, I have always enjoyed going to her blog. What do you think?

    PyroManiac I found this one a few weeks ago when surfing for something about comic books. I was surprised, to say the least. Interesting point of view here and interesting use of comic books.

    Leylop’s Blog This one got tossed into a note pad on my desktop a long time ago, when Michelle was studying up on Thailand and Singapore and Malaysia after the Tsunami. I hadn’t visited in a very long time and I’m glad I noticed it in my notepad last week. Great pictures, nice look at her life.

    Babalu Blog Again, thanks to Michelle and her Spanish class we found this one! Michelle was researching Cuba and stumbled into this interesting look at Cuban Americans and Cuban politics. Cool stuff.

    Kathang Pinay I found this one today in my search for one last really PERFECT blog for today’s celebration. I clicked randomly into the archives and found interesting things with every click. Having lived in the Philippines (and giving birth to two American children there who like claiming dual citizenship), this one really touched home for me.

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    Daily Dose of Change – New!

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    TW’s been fiddling with a new design so I would have three columns instead of the Blogger default two columns. I like having all of these great blogs in my blog roll but I didn’t like how LONG it was. Three columns helps, I think.

    You can find my feeds at the top and I’ve added some new blogs to the blogroll on the top left. I’m going to try and create a fresh blogroll every week or two. We’ll see how it goes, good intentions and all that.

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