Re: what students read and what should we teach?

From: Nalo Hopkinson (bl213@FREENET.TORONTO.ON.CA)
Date: Tue Apr 22 1997 - 19:41:32 PDT


NH: His aunts.

-nalo

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Andrea L. Klein wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, farah mendlesohn wrote:
>
> > The American City, I set a passage from Sarah and Elizabeth
> > Delany's Having Our Say. The class positively glowed... they loved
> > the extract, both male and female students and have all bounced off
> > to read more, and this despite the strong feminism that comes from
> > both women in their different ways. Being told that they were related
> > to Samuel Delany, whose short story they read the week before, sent
> > some of them back to that. Sometimes it can really work.
>
> I love Sadie and Bessie Delany too. _Having Our Say_ is beautifully
> done, mostly because it paints these women so fantastically.
> I had no idea they were related to Samuel Delany. How so?
>
> Andrea Klein
>



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