'Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!'"
- Dracula, Bram Stroker
Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Oh My!
There has been a thick fog over Colorado Springs for the last 48 hours or so. It has been rainy and miserable and before this morning I hadn't seen the mountains in 3 days due to lack of visibility. But when the sun rose this morning I could see that Pike's Peak was blanketed with snow all the way down to the tree line.
I finished the second book in the Inheritance Trilogy (the first of which is the novel Eragon) in my ongoing endeavor to read the books my students are reading. In that same vein I got permission last week to start a book club for my 8th graders.
This book club would meet for two lunches at the end of the month. At the first we will discuss a book of the 8th grader's choosing and at the second I will provide lunch and we will discuss a book of my choosing. For the month of October the books are:
8th graders: Twilight, the first book in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers
Mr. Good: Dracula, by Bram Stoker
I'm about 100 pages into Dracula and it's really starting to get good. Evidently, this book is not only the original vampire novel, but also the original werewolf novel, and the original... oh, what do you call people who like comsuming other creatures merely because they are destroying a life? People who would eat flies and spiders, or would feed flies to spiders so that when they ate the spiders the would be comsuming a dozen lives rather than just one? Anybody know? ...well, it's got one of those too.
At this point all these creatures are sort of converging on London and preparing to begin feeding off the innocent populous. Good stuff.
Well, I'm off to church. Have a spooky Sabbath.
Also, since there's a Halloween dance coming up at my school and of course I'm chaperoning I need your suggestions on:
1. What I should make for our Dracula book club lunch.
2. What I should choose for our November book.
3. What I should dress up as when I chaperone the upcoming Halloween dance. Keep in mind Ms. Brogan's dress code prevents me from displaying "weapons or gang signs."
Your Halloween clip: Jonathan Harker first encounter's Count Dracula
5 comments:
1)Please, can the Younglife school be a reality? I want to teach next door to you and come to your book club.
2) Does your to-do list mean Henry Poole Was Here, or is Charlie Pool really a thing? I saw the former and loved it more than a friend.
3)491st thing to do in Tours with me: Play Pooh Sticks on three different rivers.
Zach I saw Relient K for the first time on Friday...it was really awesome, totally different though. Most of the people there were under 16 and attending with their youth pastors. The really weird part is there was as much if not more mosh-ing than most of the other concerts I've been to, someone got hit in the face with a shoe, and people got tossed out for throwing something up on stage.
Half the band members from Relient K dressed up in costumes and their equipment was covered in cobwebs, skulls, and hanging bats. They also performed not only the office theme, but a song about the office.
Crazy cool
Started Dracula today at lunch- time. Stoker's style is more interesting to me than I had anticipated.
please be a vampire for halloween, and for chaperoning that dance. i think it'd be fitting, and you'd look superscary with fangs!
cherrie
The WEIRD thing is, Zach's actually LESS scary with fangs.
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