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Supervises Twitter-based Macbeth projects; this my pen will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine; does a wicked Hecate impression.

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There's no 0-100% scale for comprehension, as comprehending all of a text is, per Fitzgerald, is to 'romp like the mind of God.' #EDRD729

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@kstover24 Constantly! I can tell how often I've reread a book because of the thumb marks in the front and back covers.

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@kstover24 I want to keep reading things written in English, but want to expand it past Anglo-American work to Nigerian, Oceanic, Canadian..

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@megansho It's also tempting to get them to try some...not immersion, precisely, but wading journalism of their own creation.

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@megansho That's a killer idea.

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@GulletteKristen If you wanted to respond to me particularly, do the "@MacbethObserver." Everyone who follows you will see your tweets, tho.

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@GulletteKristen I think I'm getting subtweeted.

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@MrsAnpShaw Two of my favorite books as a kid were Blassingame's book about presidents and Gibbons' book about whales. The girl's not wrong.

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@MrsAnpShaw I like that as a starting point, but I feel we have to push them to...and I hate talking about Bloom's...but higher levels.

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@Miss_Cox916 That's wise. They might function as a tacit and slightly encyclopedic list of recommendations that way.

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To wrap this up: how can we use movies to generate authentic interest in students which leads to more reading and writing? #EDRD729

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All this says nothing of the reading of filmic text, which is a genre that I've found students are interested in once they know it exists.

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The movie is less than ninety minutes, but I've gotten more than ninety minutes of reading and writing out of it afterwards.

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...think about how Lean's oeuvre is an offshoot of Powell and Pressburger films, and write a blog post about Brief Encounter.

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...read up on the life and style of Rachmaninoff, reread an article I read about Coward, learn more about David Lean...

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Watching BE led me to: listen to Piano Concerto no. 2, connect it to a play in which Brief Encounter is referenced (The History Boys)...

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I watched David Lean's 1945 film Brief Encounter. It's based on a Noel Coward play and relies heavily on music by Rachmaninoff.

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There are interdisciplinary applications here for sure: a very long personal example in several tweets is about to follow.

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One thing that I may have missed in my reading: how can we talk about film as a way to further students' interests? #EDRD729

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Allison's story further confirms that: picking up on any cues the student provides in terms of preference can make a difference. #EDRD729