Now I'm curious: What are these books you have to read? (It's always fun to run into someone online who actually reads.)

it's for a project I'm completing where the books - all juvenile literature - will be paired with primary sources for educators.

Holy schamoly that sounds interesting! So I guess the books are historical fiction?

Not all of them - I have science fiction to realistic fiction.

The sci-fi one will be paired with the Library of Congress' Thomas Collection, where students can research current laws.

BUT - you are correct that a good many of them are, in fact, historical fiction.

this sounds awfully heady, I mean, there were people graduating my high school vaguely aware that pennsylvania was a state

Believe me - I understand what you mean. My goal is to create pupils who are aware of the world around them.

Oh neat! What age group do you teach?

Seventh graders. Yes. That is an eerie, crazy-person smile you can see.

Are you also an educator?

they're super difficult. I relate to what I see in anime - torn between killer cartoon robots and alternative rock and hormones, ugh.

I've never thought about them that way before.

trying to be a professor. A sample of how I write/lecture: inrethinking.blogspot.co...

You've got some interesting stuff here. I'll be sure to read it in more depth later.

I'm going to be signing off in a moment - I've got some chores to attend to - but it was so wonderful meeting you!