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Skriven 2007-05-11 10:36:40 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: Re: sneaky moms!
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Hey Carol!
-> 
-> 
-> -> 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 
-> hn> wants 
-> -> to read any of those, to talk to me first.  (Not xxx rated but a bi
-> hn> much for 
-> hn> a
-> -> 
-> -> 13 year old.  Explicit romances mostly, of which I have a few).
-> -> 
-> hn> (grin) I never really did get into those ...but read a lot of John D M
-> hn> and Alistair McLean. Lots of science fiction too. Burroughs, all of Bu
-> 
-> Edgar Rice Burroughs has the only series I ever actually threw out in the 
-> trash.  I snagged the whole Tarzan series.  Enjoyed the first one then got 
more
-> 
-> and more uncomfortable as the series progressed.  Yes, I know he was 
just a man
-> 
-> of his times, but I've never read such horrible racist stuff.  I think I
might 
-> have gotten to book 8 but it may have only been to book 4.
-> 
-> He writes a good tale, well told, but if i ever try his stuff again, it will
be
-> 
-> the Barsoom series.  His Tarzan series is much better for being 'abridged'
in 
-> the rare case of that.  Normally 'abridged' is bad, but that one time, it 
-> cleans it up.
-> 
It never really affected me that way but you'd like the barsoom, and John 
Carter of Mars and such better I suppose!

-> BTW, we are all 'color blind' in echos but I have your standard American 
mixed 
-> set and my only African ancestors are 4 generations back (that we know 
of....).
-> 
-> In an earlier time, I might have been classified as a white looking black? 
-> Perhaps I take more offense to EGB's books over this.  His treatment of 
blacks 
-> is that of 'noble animal' and 'almost truely human' (which by his definition

-> means white skin).
-> 
-> REadng his books did do one good thing for me though.  It made me very 
happy 
-> that I was born in a later more sane time.  Charlotte, born even later, just

-> will not understand 'man of his times' yet she can read Machivelli and get 
that
-> 
-> point (bit deep for her but she's read a little of it).
-> 
-> Perhaps though I'm not giving her credit fairly.  She's read every Jack 
London 
-> story I have (I lack a few of the nautical ones at home) and can deal with 
his 
-> milder expression of prejudice against native indians, perhaps because 
they 
-> vary by story as noble in their environment at times.  I am 1/16th native 
-> American so Charlotte is 1/32nd.
-> 
I think she'd understand more than you imagine. As a military brat of the 50's 
and 60's I always went to school with kids of all mixes, always played with 
kids of all sorts of heritages, a true hodge podge of cultures. I always looked

at everyone as my equal and didn't really understand what was going on with 
the civil rights movement till later when I found out everyone else wasn't like

me (in terms of believeing everyone is just as good as I am). My family has 
been in the USA since the early 1600's and some cherokee blood got added in 
the early 1700's (although that was a family "secret" till the mid 1900's or
so)
other than that I am Scotch, Irish, English, and French, and as common as 
dirt. Burroughs was fiction so I knew it was "pretend" so I guess it didn't 
bother me, certainly not as much as "To Kill a Mockingbird" did in highschool! 

-> -> He's going to like this next paper too.  It may not be a genuine 'A
-> -> she's still trying to learn better grammar skills in written expres
-> -> the scholarship behind it is a definate 'A+' for her grade level and well

-> hn> above
-> -> 
-> -> anything else the other kids can produce in a week.  Mostly, her 
problem 
-> hn> Hmmm, is there any chance you'd find a highschool student who'd be 
-> hn> interested in tutoring in grammer? One on one I think Charlotte would
-> 
-> Not very likely really.  It sounds like a good idea, but no way to really 
make 
-> it happen.  Heck, I'll be home this summer and can work with her on it.  I 
just
-> 
-> wont be home before graduation. I leave in 2 weeks.
->                                        xxcarol

Going to sea can be a bummer! Perhaps you can make some sort 
of "independent study" program with the teacher for over the summer? He 
can lay out "lessons" and Charlotte can work through them (with your 
guidance) over the summer to end up where she needs to be (or even ahead 
of ) with her grade level.
Chat with you soon
hap 
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