Month: February 2009

  • Teen Book Recommendations Needed

    There is an increasing appetite among STJ bloggers for fresh books to read. At the STJ Library blog the list of books read and reviewed keeps increasing, however, I fear the lack of choice in our current library stacks may soon inhibit this momentum. So, I’d like to try something to abate/assuage my fears. In…

  • The Lottery Writing Assignments

    Shirley Jackson regarding the letters she received after publishing The Lottery … Curiously, there are three main themes which dominate the letters of that first summer–three themes which might be identified as bewilderment, speculation, and plain old-fashioned abuse. In the years since then, during which the story has been anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even–in one…

  • Second Semester Underway

    English 30: reading these, making these, writing these, discussing these Religious Studies 25: reading, writing, discussing these English 10: reading these, writing these, making these English 9: reading these, writing these, and making these

  • Personal Writing Prompts

    Write a personal essay in response to one of the following: Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep. When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that they failed to keep? Or when did you break…