That's the thing about teaching really old books. When the science is central to the story, and we now know that the science was all wrong, it's going to be hard for kids to get past that.
This almost makes me want to believe in an anthropomorphic deity.
- (mmoffitt)
- (18)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 08:52:23 AM EDT
I understand the feeling, but
- (malraux)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 10:08:00 AM EDT
What Scott said.
- (InThane)
- (15)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 11:04:50 AM EDT
Clockmaker god
- (crazy)
- (11)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 12:45:21 PM EDT
In college, we had to read "Frankenstein" for a tech class.
- (InThane)
- (10)
- Oct. 22, 2020, 11:38:02 AM EDT
My daughter got a bad grade on her Frankenstein paper
- (drook)
- (9)
- Oct. 22, 2020, 12:00:36 PM EDT
File appeal with Principal?
- (Ashton)
- (3)
- Oct. 24, 2020, 04:43:57 AM EDT
If I were that teacher ...
- (drook)
- (2)
- Oct. 24, 2020, 09:43:05 AM EDT
Clever-lad but.. in 'Murica the emotional decision of the Overseer--went with the kid's send-up. ;^>
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- Oct. 24, 2020, 06:08:40 PM EDT
Re: recreation.
- (crazy)
- Oct. 24, 2020, 06:17:22 PM EDT
Re: My daughter got a bad grade on her Frankenstein paper
- (pwhysall)
- (4)
- Oct. 25, 2020, 02:46:40 AM EDT
It wasn't explicitly stated before the fact
- (drook)
- Oct. 25, 2020, 02:34:15 PM EDT
You seem to have quite fundamentally misunderstood the genre.
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- May 19, 2021, 03:51:47 AM EDT
And?
- (pwhysall)
- May 19, 2021, 08:26:25 AM EDT
The man who knows effing everything is wrong
- (crazy)
- May 19, 2021, 01:08:43 PM EDT
maybe they think it is amusing
-NT
- (boxley)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 03:21:13 PM EDT
What kind of divine being? Why, *this* kind!
- (rcareaga)
- (1)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 08:01:32 PM EDT
A counter-Tenor role, perhaps? "Let me not to the marriage of true minds .... admit impediments".
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 21, 2020, 04:17:22 PM EDT
You're just trying to cheer me up! :)
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- Oct. 20, 2020, 10:54:38 PM EDT