Back on track!
Quick review on this week's readings:
Feb 12 Selected Writings by Abraham Lincoln: 3/5 Gettysburg Address good, Amnesty good try, Letter to Bixby good (but maybe scam?)
Feb 13 Cellini's Autobiography: 3/5 This one was just weird. Cool, but hard to believe.
Feb 14 Discourse on The Passion of Love by Pascal: 1/5 Pascal is not a great writer, and his ideas about romance are terrible.
Feb 15 All for Love by John Dryden: 4/5 Hard to rate without being able to watch. Seemed good though.
Feb 16 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: 2/5 Meh, go back to describing piles of dead shellfish and the mini-ecosystems they form.
Feb 17 Tartuffe by Molière: 4/5 Seems like an interesting play from the first couple scenes.
Feb 18 Treaty of Ghent: 2/5 Interesting, but repetitive.
Overall Average: 2.7 Good spread this week. I like when we get a wide variety of types of readings. Fiction, nonfiction, prose, plays, essays. About the only thing we didn't get was some kind of prose fiction.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
Reading one play and watching another in the same week confirms my "plays are meant to be seen, not read" theory. Maybe kids would hate Shakespeare less if schools just had them watch it and read select scenes instead of suffer through the whole play before watching the movie at the end "as a treat."
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