CEK40 wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

april6263 wrote:

LOL....I have always been a reader and I read quickly.......I haven't had as much time to read since Niecey got sick but I still fit it in when I can ....my hubby and kids tease me though because I still prefer to carry and read  a "real" book to reading one electronically.....they tell me I could down load books on my tablet but to me its not the same...LOL

A woman after my own heart. And I'll bet that you are not alone in this on this board.  I too much prefer a "real" book to reading one electronically.  And I recently read that there is evidence that it is better for your eyes to read a "real" book, especially if you do a lot of reading.  If the students I had when I switched to requiring them to read a book a week to qualify for an A kept up that habit, which some of them have, they would have read over a 1000 books by now.  I made this a hallmark of my teaching when I got depressed over the research that showed time after time that we forget 70% of what we learned the year before within three months.  I still remember walking down our English corridor, and asking myself what I was doing when people were going to forget 70% of it in three months.  And I thought, I can teach a habit.  I never dreamed that the class that began it all would become the single most popular Literature Elective at our high school.   I firmly believe that a large part of the success is that students came to realize that they had control over the grade they earned.  In fact doing this did  transform my classrooms in that students began taking full ownership for the grade they earned:  18 books for an A, 14 for a B and 10 for a C; D's and F's became a thing of the past.  I was stunned.  It worked both with freshman and upperclassmen.  Cheating also became a thing of the past. That was, in part, because for every book a student read, he or she had to meet with me and two or three other students who were ready with a book, for a book conference.  It is much harder to look classmates and your teacher in the eye and lie than it is to lie in a book report.  I did this with Shakespeare, with American Lit, with world lit and with the class that began it all, Modern Mythology where we focused on some of the 19th nad 20th century writers of science fiction, myth and fairy tales: George MacDonald, Ursula Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, J.R,R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, Katherine Kurtz, etc., etc., etc.  New books got added as students recommended them from their own reading. I also realized after awhile that to make this a success the teacher had to keep up with the class as new books got added to the list. Students still had tests and still had writing but never the fear they had had before they learned that actually reading the book, then having an in depth discussion about it followed by a written assignment went a long way towards dispelling anxiety about tests which I called response reports.       

I to prefer reading a real book and magazine...not that I wouldn't use a tablet to read under certain conditions but there is something about holding that book in your hand...call me still a bit old fashion!

 
I wholeheartedly agree with the book over the nook.  I've never downloaded any books, except for AAA travel books!  Like touching and feeling the fabric before you buy it, reading is about turning the pages and seeing the cover when you pick it up or put it down.

View, unobstructed wrote:

So gabriele is correct.


Yah...well...my grandson called and said "we're in the emergency room.  Dad's in a lot of pain.  He thinks some kind of obstruction maybe."

My husband went up to the hospital right away so kid would have some company if dad needed surgery or something.  With instructions to keep me informed as I had pie in oven.  They did a cat scan and told him he has a 6 mm kidney stone trying to pass.  They offered pain pills.  He declined.  So everyone went home after a couple of hours.  

Son told me dr. said at 8 mm they do the lithotripsy.   So he is just toughing it out.  I reminded him that when my brother was experiencing same, a golfing doctor friend told him to stand up on the toilet seat and jump down landing - bang - hard on both feet!!

All's well that ends well.  Things are fine.  And far better than some conditions it could have been.

Oh no!!!!! How is he doing?

 

I have run out of lies...but it's gabriele's turn if you want to continue playing.

I found another list of questions on line "fun to ask your friends"  so they say.  

Last edited by View, unobstructed (6/14/2016 8:16 am)

Ooops, I didn't realise I have been holding up the works. 

Here goes:-

1)  My Grandfather had red hair and only one leg.

2)  For a while my favourite toy was a pear that could talk.

3)  As a child, I spent some summer holidays behind the iron curtain.





 

Last edited by gabriele (6/14/2016 9:57 am)

gabriele wrote:

Ooops, I didn't realise I have been holding up the works. 

Here goes:-

1)  My Grandfather had red hair and only one leg.

2)  For a while my favourite toy was a pear that could talk.

3)  As a child, I spent some summer holidays behind the iron curtain.





 

I will take a wild guess and go with # 1 as the lie...