Tag Archives: Reading Around

Beowulf: Behold the Man

or, We all have our monsters to fight

By CircleReader | November 16th, 2007
You think you've heard about swords, and heroes, and fire-breathing dragons, and friendship, and glory, and treasure, just 'cause you've read those Potter books? C'mere, boys, let me tell you a tale...
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Learning Like Magic

By Nicole | November 16th, 2007
It makes a sensational, controversial headline: A Harry Potter-centered curriculum boosts a failing school into the top 5 percent. Students must recite a spell (“numerus subtracticus”) when answering math questions. But on closer inspection, this turns out not to be just a school carried off into frightening conformity to the current fad. Whatever you may [...]
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Storytelling and Fear

By CircleReader | November 1st, 2007
Ian over at Upper Fort Stewart in The Scariest Books I’ve Read says: There’s two days left till Halloween. If you’ve got any scary stories yourself why not blog about them and link back here so we can read them or post a comment. I can’t be the only guy around still afraid of Morlocks [...]
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