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Mar. 13th, 2008 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsYamaraashi-chan has been having a little trouble at school focusing. While Der Ex continues to rant and rave that there's something serious going on, all of the other people in Yamaraashi-chan's life, like her teacher, her counsellor, and so forth are all basically telling me "It's puberty," which is what I kinda figured. She has no problem being engaged with math; that's easy and fun for her, but the reading assignments have been hard on her.
After ripping through most of the Xanth books last year, the general reading material offered by her classroom just doesn't engage her. (Although when I was speaking to her teacher I spotted a YA novel I'd never seen before, a big thick book about a young boy born of a genetically engineered cow, who learns that he's the clone of a Mexican drugs and arms dealer. He also learns that he's basically walking spare parts, and tries to escape his fate.)
One of the things her teacher has is a bulletin board of "pizazz words," words kids encountered in their stories that were so cool they had to share them with the classroom. A year ago I had angsted about whether or not Yamaraashi-chan should read Lovecraft. I finally decided that she should: the vocabulary, style, and subject all hold her attention. She's gleeful about the hundreds of pizzaz words she's already found: rugose, squamous, scabrous, tenebrous, eldritch. We'll see if this improves her book report scores.
After ripping through most of the Xanth books last year, the general reading material offered by her classroom just doesn't engage her. (Although when I was speaking to her teacher I spotted a YA novel I'd never seen before, a big thick book about a young boy born of a genetically engineered cow, who learns that he's the clone of a Mexican drugs and arms dealer. He also learns that he's basically walking spare parts, and tries to escape his fate.)
One of the things her teacher has is a bulletin board of "pizazz words," words kids encountered in their stories that were so cool they had to share them with the classroom. A year ago I had angsted about whether or not Yamaraashi-chan should read Lovecraft. I finally decided that she should: the vocabulary, style, and subject all hold her attention. She's gleeful about the hundreds of pizzaz words she's already found: rugose, squamous, scabrous, tenebrous, eldritch. We'll see if this improves her book report scores.
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Date: 2008-03-14 04:33 am (UTC)On the other hand Bellingham cousin (in her 20's) is realizing I actually know a thing or two.
You'll survive.