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Skriven 2007-05-10 11:28:06 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: sneaky moms!
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Ahoy Carol!
-> 
-> 
-> hn> Ooooooh You IS a sneaky one you is!!! (grin) Do you realize how 
many k
-> hn> Charolotte's age have no idea who Tacitus was, Who Quisling was, 
and e
-> hn> where to find stuff in an encyclopedia !! Making her learn through the
-> hn> door" is almost unfair (lol)! Ain't learning fun!
-> 
-> Sure is fun!  But Charlotte really does have a much larger reading habit 
than 
-> her age group by far.  The teacher is only now becoming truely aware of 
the 
-> level of difference.  He came over at lunch (we live across the street from 
the
-> 
-> school) to check out her 'home library'.
-> 
I was that way and so was Amanda! 

-> Now I'm not saying Charlotte has read all of it and some of it isnt 'age 
-> appropriate' so I have it on a separate shelf and told Charlotte if she 
wants 
-> to read any of those, to talk to me first.  (Not xxx rated but a bit much
for 
a
-> 
-> 13 year old.  Explicit romances mostly, of which I have a few).
-> 
(grin) I never really did get into those ...but read a lot of John D McDonald, 
and Alistair McLean. Lots of science fiction too. Burroughs, all of Burroughs!

-> She really likes Sherlock Holmes books and the Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 'Saint 
-> Germain' series.  Her favorite book in 3rd grade was 'Little Women' 
(Unabridged
-> 
-> classic).  She's read most of the Valdemar series (they may have adult 
ideas, 
-> but are not explict so arent on that 'other shelf').  She likes 'Paradise
Lost'
-> 
-> but 'Xenophon' she skims for the good parts.  She thinks Jeff 
Smith's 'Ancient 
-> Cuisines' is cool for the stories.  I put 'Deerskin' on that 'special shelf'

-> because it deals with child rape and incest but told her if she taks to me 
-> first, she can read it but she might have nightmares.
-> 
No need to create angst...teenagers generate enough without any help!

-> Anyways, the teacher sent me an email 'I had no idea this was going on, 
she's 
-> so quiet in school I thought she was hiding a reading problem, then I saw 
that 
-> last paper'.  What she needs, is a better grounding in *writing*, not 
reading.
-> If we had 'summer school' here, she'd be a classic pick for a class geared 
-> towards gramatical writing skills.  
-> 
-> He's going to like this next paper too.  It may not be a genuine 'A' because

-> she's still trying to learn better grammar skills in written expression, but

-> the scholarship behind it is a definate 'A+' for her grade level and well 
above
-> 
-> anything else the other kids can produce in a week.  Mostly, her problem 
is she
-> 
-> has trouble summarizing and it does no good if I do it for her.
-> 
-> Meantime while doing all this (extra credit), she's got to do the normal 
stuff 
-> her class is assigned.  She's doing better there now.  I told her to put the

-> collected works of Shakespere down and read the assigned books for 
now.  I let 
-> her read whatever she wants, but only after the assigned books are done 
for 
-> that night (or chapters actualy out of an assigned book).  Unfortunately, 
best 
-> we can hope for this year is if she makes an A this quarter, it will even
out 
-> to a D.  I was at sea too much.
->                                        xxcarol
Hmmm, is there any chance you'd find a highschool student who'd be 
interested in tutoring in grammer? One on one I think Charlotte would do quite 
well! Amanda's biggest failing in writing is she never feels she's done with
the 
editing part ...she'd have the whole paper written three days after it would 
be assigned...and still be editing it the day before it's due...even if that's
a 
three month time frame! 
chat with you soon
hap 
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