This Week at Tov Unleashed
Intensives have become for me both the most enjoyable form of teaching and the most demanding. A whole week — M through F — from 8:30-3:30, including lunch with our cohort, intensifies the experience of education and wears us all down by Friday. We get to know one another; we listen to one another; we progress together in learning. If the student does the prep work and then the follow-up after the intensive week, I believe studies would show students learn more from intensives than the regular weekly or bi-weekly class meetings.
I had a great week last week. One of the major assignments for this intro class is to read a long-ish book with some long-ish sentences, and this is the reply by a student to my request that they let me know they all got home safely (they come from all over the USA). Guess the author of the book they read.
It’s call “actantial analysis.”
This week.
Tomorrow’s Labor Day so we will send out a note about the holiday.
What about the challenge of having a platform in order to get a publisher interested in publishing your book? Would not the book itself help to create the platform? And, how much does platform matter for someone being able to write a good book? Enough asked. Join us Tuesday for this conversation.
A recent book probes this question about life: Are you a tourist or a pilgrim? What are the differences? (Join us Wednesday.)
Thursday is still a mystery to me as I have a few irons in the fire on this one.