by DianneSalerni | Jan 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
A sinus infection has knocked me flat this week, so Gina is stepping in with a guest post, reviewing the newest book in her favorite series: The Worst Case Scenario Junior Edition. Read at your own risk!The WORST-CASE SCENARIO Survival Handbook: GROSS Junior Edition...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 12, 2011 | teaching
Is today’s youth capable of recognizing irony in literature? Monday’s discussion of Huck Finn has prompted me to move on to another little soapbox subject of mine: underestimating young readers.Some people find the language and characters in Huck Finn offensive....
by DianneSalerni | Jan 10, 2011 | teaching
Seeing Huckleberry Finn on the list of banned books is no new thing. It’s been controversial for years and years, thanks to it making us uncomfortable and forcing us to think a little. (Wouldn’t Mark Twain have a laugh about that? I expect he’d write another satire...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 7, 2011 | writing
Yup, this is one of the things I put on my Christmas wish list, and Santa was obliging: big yellow noise-blocking headphones. I know. Terrible, isn’t it?“What big headphones you have, Mommy!”“The better to ignore you with, my dear.”These headphones are excellent at...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 5, 2011 | characters, WIP
Have you ever had any dead characters hanging around your house, stinking up the place? I don’t mean characters who were poisoned, shot, or otherwise suffered a tragic but necessary demise for the sake of the plot. I’m talking about characters who never...
