[etni] Looking for Book

From: "David R. Herz" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:54:18 +0300
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This message is in response to Ms. Byk's seeking: 

 

a book to work with a highly intelligent, well-read native-speaker level
student, going up to 7th grade. I need something with lots of intelligent
exercises and lots of writing. Not books about school and how to cope as a
teenager, please.

 

It seems to me there is English, and there is living life, and these could
just overlap.  So at the risk of heretically suggesting that a student's job
is to live life rather than prepare for it, I offer the following materials
(all free).  Intelligent exercises are without a doubt included, though you
may have to get a bit creative about turning these into more formal
writings.

 

First Liz Seda's (http://www.alifeonyourterms.com/) Life Lovers Guide to the
Galaxy.  The first part is a recollection of her own interesting path,
interspersed with her Dirty Challenges.  I like the ninth:

 

Consume (read/listen) Atlas Shrugged.

Consume it once to get the idea.

Consume it again to understand it.

Consume it a third time because you love it.

 

Now if we posed these, or even suggested to our student that he take this
on, even once, he'd snicker and the book would just grow dust, but at her
invite, he might just take it on.  Then she also asks some wonderful
questions to get people thinking about their purpose in the world.

 

If you want him to write a little more and read a little less, I might add
Scott Dinsmore's (www.liveyourlegend.net) 27 Questions to Find Your Passion.

 

Then I'd add Shawn Achor's (http://goodthinkinc.com/) TED Talk
(http://goodthinkinc.com/media/tedtalk/) who provides some daily exercises
to bring happiness to life.

 

But if you want him to write, I would add that you encourage him to keep a
journal a la Lucy McCormick Calkins Living Between the Lines (this one costs
money).  The book is more classroom oriented, but the idea is sound in or
out of the classroom.  If I could find my copy, I'd pass it along; but it
has apparently out and about in the Herz lending library.

 

It's probably a different sort of direction than you were thinking, but I
figured I'd throw it out there.  

 

David R. Herz

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