Domesticated House Panthers and the National Emergency of Education
I just completed another one of my 30-day challenges! Yay! Now, my next challenge will not be 30-days, because Fall Break is rapidly approaching, and I am not going to be healthy on Fall Break. I am going on a cruise to the Bahamas with my grandmother, and cruises are not the place to eat healthily OR workout. Besides, right now, I'm just hoping that we still get to go and that I can cross off country #30! For my books this past month, I read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The Necklace by Claire McMillan. I finally read The Joy Luck Club because one of the chapters was featured in our English curriculum for 7th grade. And the book as a whole really enforces the theme that you can't make someone be something they're not. Although the mothers tried, their daughters often went their own way. My students REALLY related to this theme. The Necklace was good, too. It's this sort of romance, mystery book that goes back and forth between the 1920s and present day. The neckl...