Dorothy L Sayers: Gaudy Night
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"Making it work for children with High Functioning Autism"
As a co-ordinator and practitioner I have worked in the education sector for many years with a 'client' base which has always been both stimulating and challenging. In the dynamic field of inclusive education I've successfully engaged in developing and disseminating strategies designed to enable youngsters with *autism spectrum disorders to be mainstreamed. The young people I've worked alongside have taught me that difference is 'mainstream' and that each individual has a unique talent to nurture and share.
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*My particular focus is around youngsters with Asperger's, High Functioning Autism, PDD
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When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson
This is a third novel by Charlotte Mendelson, whose second, Daughters of Jerusalem, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her novels are perfectly balanced observations of human nature captured in all its hideous glories, usually in family settings. As intelligent as it is funny, her writing is brilliant at bringing out the awkwardness of the transition from family life to independent adult existence (if, indeed, any of us really achieve it).
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from Sunday Observer by Viv Groskop
The Bell Jar: Sylvia Plath by Cath Corri
Is there such a thing/person/reality of/as a doomed genius - the tautology is simple? Take out the doomed, for we are all that, but maybe less perpetuated (although feminist in our ways) ???? psychological awkwardness/angst I think - rather than social for the book itself dis-reveals the latter - with its ruthless incisiveness and the thin veil between the somatic body and social constructions around about and within it.and what is a poet? And how to tell one when you read one? How words are placed in constructive frameworks matter? isn't dickens a poet purely by having that genius on board? There are no better poetic signifiers than the names he chooses for characters. the Bell Jar is memorable for its mental exhaustion, femininity (rather than the feminine) and its adolescent perpetuation of the morbid - how more poetic can one get? if there is any doomed genius in it at all - it is external to the creative process within the book - which finally found its place in the poetry and the passion of her life as well as death. but i still like the word womanist rather than feminist jan - her work reminds me of afro-american writers - in love and trouble (sometimes with herself)
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
How far does this book serve to perpetuate Sylvia Plath's cult status as doomed genius and feminist icon? Does the book unexpectedly amuse us too with its incisive exploration of social awkwardness and 'angst'?
Can we tell it is written by a poet?
Skellig: David Almond
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