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When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the editors. But Minor, an American expatriate in England and a Civil War veteran, was actually a certified lunatic who turned in his dictionary entries from the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Simon Winchester has produced a mesmerizing coda to the deeply troubled Minor's life, a life that in one sense began with the senseless murder of an innocent British brewery worker that the deluded Minor believed was an assassin sent by one of his numerous "enemies."
Winchester also paints a rich portrait of the OED's leading light, Professor James Murray, who spent more than 40 years of his life on a project he would not see completed in his lifetime. Winchester traces the origins of the drive to create a "Big Dictionary" down through Murray and far back into the past; the result is a fascinating compact history of the English language (albeit admittedly more interesting to linguistics enthusiasts than historians or true crime buffs). That Murray and Minor, whose lives took such wildly disparate turns yet were united in their fierce love of language, were able to view one another as peers and foster a warm friendship is just one of the delicately turned subplots of this compelling book. --Tjames Madison --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The Oxford English Dictionary used 1,827,306 quotations to help define its 414,825 words. Tens of thousands of those used in the first edition came from the erudite, moneyed American Civil War veteran Dr. W.C. Minor?all from a cell at the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Vanity Fair contributor Winchester (River at the Center of the World) has told his story in an imaginative if somewhat superficial work of historical journalism. Sketching Minor's childhood as a missionary's son and his travails as a young field surgeon, Winchester speculates on what may have triggered the prodigious paranoia that led Minor to seek respite in England in 1871 and, once there, to kill an innocent man. Pronounced insane and confined at Broadmoor with his collection of rare books, Minor happened upon a call for OED volunteers in the early 1880s. Here on more solid ground, Winchester enthusiastically chronicles Minor's subsequent correspondence with editor Dr. J.A.H. Murray, who, as Winchester shows, understood that Minor's endless scavenging for the first or best uses of words became his saving raison d'etre, and looked out for the increasingly frail man's well-being. Winchester fills out the story with a well-researched mini-history of the OED, a wonderful demonstration of the lexicography of the word "art" and a sympathetic account of Victorian attitudes toward insanity. With his cheeky way with a tale ("It is a brave and foolhardy and desperate man who will perform an autopeotomy" he writes of Minor's self-mutilation), Winchester celebrates a gloomy life brightened by devotion to a quietly noble, nearly anonymous task. Photos not seen by PW. Agent, Peter Matson. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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A few things I liked about this book:
1. One will assuredly learn a thing or two about the English language, in reading it. You will learn some obsolete words, the origin of some words, and just get a refresher of other, more common words. Each chapter begins with a dictionary entry of a particular word, some very normal words, some more exotic words.
2. The parallel lives of the two main characters are interesting to follow. One feels real emotions for both. There are a few shocking moments in the book, which stand out quite a bit in front of the otherwise fairly tame narrative.
3. I grew up with the Oxford English Dictionary, and I always wondered how they compiled all the words. It was great learning about how they did that.
4. The book covers an array of themes and topics, and a fairly diverse geography. Mental illness, civil war, sexual propriety, crime and punishment, one can learn a little bit about a lot of issues in the reading of Simon Winchester's book.
I wouldn't recommend the book to just anyone, though. It can be kind of slow, and sometimes one simply grows tired of bouncing back and forth between the two main characters. It is also fairly short; one sort of wishes for more detail on certain events. In some places, the book reads like a crime/detective novel from the 19th century, in others it is more like a biography. It sort of skips around from one style to the next, almost as if different parts were written at very different times by an author in very different states of mind. Overall, though, this book is a nice, quick read, a good plot, and you will learn a thing or two from it.
The two main characters definitely left a lasting legacy! Who would have thought that, the creation of the Oxford Dictionary would involve such people of different backgrounds and, personal history.
This book stands out as one one should read!
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On the whole, I preferred this book (which actually was written earlier than the other, as I learned to my surprise). It is much lighter in tone than the later work and I found my sympathies engaged by the tragic history of the poor Doctor more so than I did the treatment of Murray (who, admittedly, is really only a subordinate 'character' to the dictionary itself). Having said that, though, I have to acknowledge that I probably would not have enjoyed reading about Minor's story quite as much had I not read 'The Meaning Everything' first. I think it would be much harder to appreciate Minor's contribution to the OED without the much more detailed account of just how the dictionary was compiled that the later book provides.
It is, just possibly, a bit of a shame that Winchester could not have written the history of the three characters (the OED, Murray and Minor) in one comprehensive volume.Read more ›
This book taught me so much. Without computers and modern technology these people were able to bring forth one of the most important books, one that is relevant still today. Would we be able to find this kind of dedication now?
I am trilingual and never appreciated this until now. With three languages, two Latin based and also having learnt Latin in school I was able to decipher a lot of the words at the top of each chapter. So the lesson here is to learn to speak as many languages as you can thereby enriching you world.
Thank you Mr. Winchester.
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A great story told with wonderful detail and insight into the characters involved. A great read for anyone interested in our crazy past.Published 10 months ago by Christopher Knapp
Simon Winchester is a gift to all who read his most marvellous books! Subjects we sometimes overlook, question and search.....but here in The Professor and the Madman.... Read morePublished 21 months ago by Robin Lee Bown
Interesting story, unfortunately mishandled by the author. A book on the makings of the OED deserves better. Read morePublished on July 21 2013 by CFB
Enjoyed reading this book. Well written, and very interesting. Certainly proves that the truth can be stranger than fiction. Will be reading more from this author.Published on Feb. 7 2013 by John A.
The Professor & the Madman is both captivating and informative. The conception of the Oxford English Dictionary is an unparalleled testament of hardship and one man's redemption... Read morePublished on Sept. 29 2012 by JSB
The book is well balanced between the history of the OED and the life and times of Dr. William Minor, (a major contributor). Read morePublished on July 28 2010 by bernie
Here is another one of those great Winchester-style historical stories that proves that improbable ideas often happen when obsessively brilliant people come together on a mission... Read morePublished on July 3 2008 by Ian Gordon Malcomson
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[4] November 17, 2015 at 1:52pm
Problem I have is send children to "learning institutions" to be "indoctrinated"
There still are a few places that do not spew hatred form the lectern's…..
[8] November 17, 2015 at 7:14am
wake up flipper…., you cant believe the truth when written……
[4] November 17, 2015 at 7:09am
Ok, the problem, he is not a true constitutionalist… he should change parties… go to the side he supports, stop the deception…
November 17, 2015 at 7:01am
keep remembering he's in name only…
[12] November 17, 2015 at 6:59am
you get it… He is becoming the main stream media darling…… proceed with caution…
[6] November 17, 2015 at 6:55am
you get it… thank you…
[3] November 17, 2015 at 1:20am
HE said it when he was elected, Fundamentally Transform America… go back and read it…
I don't believe he (they the puppet masters) wants a civil war…but if that's what it takes, they will… Look at where we are today with dividing; rich/poor, one race against another, straight/gay, educated vice normal folks….. the list goes on… creating distrust around every corner…destroying the middle class… so there only is.. the élite as they call themselves… sickening term…..
[2] November 17, 2015 at 1:06am
I admitted along time ago.. his agenda is destabilizing America and specific parts of the world… transformation as he called it, getting rid of traditions… sick, twisted take over of America from the inside… but in my eyes it is all real…
[1] November 17, 2015 at 1:01am
Thank you.. you get it….
[1] November 17, 2015 at 12:52am
Great comment…. Stand by.. we have to get there first…
the current group will do everything in their power not have an election…
They make the laws.. not obey them… Like exempting Congress from Affordable Health Care Act…
That is a small piece of a much large puzzle….
[1] November 17, 2015 at 12:45am
Well, if you are a constitutional American .. maybe from prison…
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The "out-of-area" debate
This article is complemented by Article 6, which stipulates:
Article 6¹
"For the purpose of Article 5 an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian departments of France², on the occupation forces of any Party in Europe, on the islands under the jurisdiction of any Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer or on the vessels or aircraft in this area of any of the Parties."
According to one of the drafters of the Treaty, Theodore C. Achilles, there was no doubt in anybody's minds that NATO operations could also be conducted south of the Tropic of Cancer³. This was confirmed by foreign ministers in Reykjavik in May 2002 in the context of the fight against terrorism: "To carry out the full range of its missions, NATO must be able to field forces that can move quickly to wherever they are needed, sustain operations over distance and time, and achieve their objectives". (Extract from the Reykjavik communiqué).
The principle of providing assistance
With the invocation of Article 5, Allies can provide any form of assistance they deem necessary to respond to a situation. This is an individual obligation on each Ally and each Ally is responsible for determining what it deems necessary in the particular circumstances.
This assistance is taken forward in concert with other Allies. It is not necessarily military an
November 17, 2015 at 12:31am
Here is what I founf on Article 5
"The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security."
In reply to ultmatesurvivor's comment on the story Texas Congressman Introduces Resolution to Invoke NATO Article Five After Paris Attacks
November 17, 2015 at 12:32am
ultmatesurvivor responded:
[1] November 17, 2015 at 12:27am
OK wait a minute…
is our Nation, the USA, that threatened we need to invoke Article 5 for anything except… maybe securing boarders…?
to ask for assistance, to me is creating a false flag…
I don't know the Texas Congressman … but with this type statement… I will need to do a little more research…
In reply to the story Texas Congressman Introduces Resolution to Invoke NATO Article Five After Paris Attacks
November 17, 2015 at 12:31am
ultmatesurvivor responded:
November 17, 2015 at 12:14am
you are right FOX is just another propaganda machine…
[3] November 17, 2015 at 12:08am
YOUR obviously a mouth piece for the NWO and their diatribe of world dominance.. it sickens me…. FOX just is a different shade of the same propaganda… you expect us to take thugs from other counties is what is weakening America, the American dream was not to have terrorist, murders, thieves and who knows what else imported… Look at Belgium and France… We have enough problems with our porous borders… Now you would have us import potential people to destroy the American Dream……? My dream revolves around freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… Not preparing for a continual street battle to defend my rights… A true Work Leader like a president, would find a global solution with out destabilizing the USA.. but that's the real plan right …, destabilize the US as the NWO has done to so many other countries… take us over with in fighting, martial law…suspension of elections…
[2] November 16, 2015 at 11:56pm
What do you all expect… Surprised the Clinton thug camp are allowing any…
[-3] November 16, 2015 at 11:53pm
Just another avenue for more government regulation.. think about it… hide in plain site…
In reply to the story 'The Voice' Contestant Stuns With 'Brilliant' Rendition of 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness': 'Goosebumps'
[3] November 17, 2015 at 2:08am
Corohr responded:
[2] November 17, 2015 at 2:27am
pschlentz responded:
November 17, 2015 at 9:40am
P3P8Patriot623010 responded:
[2] November 16, 2015 at 7:50am
All I see in my mind is the scene from the Movie "Outlaw Josey Wales", when everyone turns in there pistols and rifles… . except one. … Watch it … think about it… you will have no defense… Blessings to all the constitutional Americans that remain.
Be ware the RINO's… the other side is swinging support to..?… Just open your eyes and watch … compare evil media's interview time with some candidates and almost zero for others… then as always the coddle treatment…
[2] November 4, 2015 at 8:49am
San Francisco County California; Population, 2014 estimate : 852,469
Total population about 852k
Registered voters abt 500k or 62% of total population
Democratic – 280k 57%
No party preference – 155k 31.%
Republican – 43k 9%
total number of votes 122k…. yikes…do the math on apathy….
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Albany will not have seven-day trading in the immediate future, after Albany City Council again decided not to make a definitive decision on retail trading deregulation, instead resolving to defer the issue for at least another six months.
On Tuesday, council was to vote on whether it would forward the results of community consultation into deregulation to Commerce Minister Simon O'Brien for his consideration on whether to change trading hours in Albany.
Instead, a motion from Councillor Sarah Bowles to consider the issue as part of its ongoing corporate and economic strategic planning process, required to be completed by June 30 next year, was passed 8-1.
Cr Bowles told council it could not apply to Mr O'Brien without being able to show support for deregulation from four sectors of the community – the general public, tourism sector, business community and the local member of Parliament.
She said the issue was never going away and council needed collaborative research and consultation before it made a final decision.
"The issue is ongoing and divisive, we need to stop the adversarial approach," she said.
Cr Ray Hammond said there had been little research on the social and economic impact of deregulation and sensible economic modelling, with far greater transparency, was required.
During public question time, Great Southern Distilling Company owner and Latro Lawyers principal Cameron Syme said Albany was a tourist town, but there was a perception it was closed to trade.
Mr Syme said those against seven-day trade were often the ones who benefited from a regulated environment and the issue should be considered more broadly in a strategic context.
Most in the public gallery were against deregulation.
After the meeting, both sides of the debate welcomed the decision.
Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Graham Harvey described it as a common sense outcome and said the chamber would continue pushing towards deregulation.
"It means now that the whole issue of deregulated trading can be assessed and judged in light of the overall economic development plan, which is what should have happened in the first place," he said.
Great Southern Small Business Association president Ian Rayson said he was glad deregulation was off the agenda for now.
"But the fact they are still considering it keeps us motivated and lets us get engaged with the rest of the community," he said.
Both men said they hoped emotion and personal attacks would be taken out of the debate in future.


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Thanks to everyone who came out. Here is the presentation and a helpful workshop package!
Thanks to everyone who came out. Here is the presentation and a helpful workshop package!
Thanks so much for everyone who came out today. As promised, here is the Prezi as well as a handout just for all you teachers out there! Remember, if you're interested in continuing our discussion, just get in touch with me through the contact tab. Enjoy the rest of TCAF!
I thoroughly enjoyed my time this past weekend at CITE 2016, the annual meeting of the Conference of Independent Teachers of English. For those of you who attended my sessions, and for those of you who didn't but are interested in the material, here are the Prezis for your viewing pleasure!
Seeing through the Gaze: Using Critical Theory to Teach Advertising, Visual Narrative, Literature and Film
Best Class Ever! -- The Technology Edition
A new issue of Martian Comics -- "The Canals of Earth" -- is coming your way in an exciting courtesy of new Kickstarter! Before you do anything, check out the video above and then lend your support to Julian Darius and Kevin Thurman's exciting new addition to the series.
Julian was kind enough to answer my questions about the series. It's this kind of thoughtfulness, insight, and love of comics that makes Martian Comics
Why Martian Comics? What was your original motivation for the series?
Kevin Thurman, my co-writer, had an idea for a story, and we'd talked about it in several iterations. He revised it again, tying it to the sci-fi backstory I'd created for the publisher Martian Lit! So from there, I was locked into the concept, and I felt invested in it. And it just snowballed from there.
But I love the title "Martian Comics!" It's such a throwback to things like Adventure Comics or Action Comics. And I meant that title as a kind of umbrella designation, indicating that we're building a universe here that's bigger than any single story.
What does "The Canals of Earth" bring to the series?
"The Canals of Earth" is the story of the early days of Mars-Earth relations. Most of it is a flashback, as we watch ancient Martians looking towards Earth and imagining a Martian goddess named Earth, the same way humans once imagined a god named Mars. We also see Martian science-fiction, in which Earth is imagined as a very Martian-like society, but more advanced and eager to invade Mars. This science fiction evolves. And we track the whole relationship through the Martian space age.
In terms of the larger series, this story occurs thousands of years prior to almost anything we've seen so far. Martian Comics is simultaneously running "The Girl from Mars" and these other stories. Those stories are part of a large short story collection. "The Canals of Earth" would be a very early story in that collection, in which we see Mars-Earth relations grow and change over millennia (and see lots of other stuff evolve too!).
"The Canals of Earth" does give us our earliest depiction of Martian society, a glimpse of early Martian religion, and reference to a Martian city we've never seen before. We're building something big. But you can enjoy "The Canals of Earth" without any previous knowledge! It's just a good sci-fi story.
What does the sophisticated reader take away from Martian Comics? What are you hoping they take away?
First, I just hope that people like the issue and enjoy the story. I think the art's beautiful, and the writing is beautiful, and if someone enjoys it, that's enough for me!
Second, I hope that people take away a kind of mind-bending way of imagining a very foreign perspective. We're not on Earth in this story. We're looking at how Mars has seen and imagined Earth. We're decentralized. And we're seeing Martians imagine that people on Earth would look like them. We're seeing how Martian science-fiction is a projection of Martian anxieties, and it's laughable but wonderful, in that old-school sci-fi way. Readers might be tempted to study the history of science-fiction after this issue! But I like this idea of a totally decentralized story, in which we're seeing a parallel of our own history but through alien eyes, and the entire story is this sort of distorted mirror that puts our own anthropocentric tendencies in stark relief. And maybe, just maybe, through that, some readers might see a parable of our own anthropocentrism and the need to imagine other perspectives! Maybe. In any case, there are things to think about here, places for the readers' brains to go! And I like giving readers these experiences, and seeing what they think about, which is never exactly what I'd think about -- and that's great!
Third, on a more meta level, I hope the sophisticated reader sees a comic that demonstrates that comics can do this -- make people think. So many of the comics that have most affected me were intelligent. Certainly, the truly classics are. And I think you can be intelligent and entertaining at the same time. But I think that there's a perception that most of the smart comics being made are autobiographical or "non-genre," whereas the genre work tends to be flashy but a little thoughtless. Martian Comics is here to say, "No, you can do smart -- even really smart -- sci-fi comics that are still sci-fi, and unembarrassed about their genre, and fun!" "The Canals of Earth," in particular, really reminds me of some issues of Planetary, which was intelligent and played with genre and had the same sort of mix of smart fun. Comics can do this. We know that. And we need to get back to it.
Where do you see the series going from here?
Everywhere. I'm in it for the long haul. We'll be continuing with "The Girl from Mars" and these other Martian stories for a while yet. We'll be getting out collected editions. Eventually, these other stories, like "The Canals of Earth," are going to be a massive volume spanning thousands of years, with different cultures and characters and historical trends being explored in a really sprawling way. I've got other ideas, other volumes, stories I want to tell. There's a very long-term plan here. We may only be on issue #5, but I'm currently writing a story that'll probably be in issue #13, and I've got plans for many dozens of issues' worth of material after that.
What do you think is the most compelling reason for readers of Comics in Education, or fans of comics in general, to support your Kickstarter campaign?
Because comics can do this. They can tell ambitious stories that can only be told in comics.
Best Class Ever!
As promised, here are the resources from my two presentations. First up is "Best Class Ever!" In addition to the Prezi, I'm including the workshop handout and the workshop package!
"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility"
Check out the Workshop Package. Pages and pages of resources and ideas!
Just a quick note...
Hi everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that I'll be presenting this coming week at Reading for the Love of It at the Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Toronto!
This year's conference is the 40th anniversary of the event and it should prove to be a wonderful opportunity for educators to gather and share their stories.
Here are the places where you can catch my presentations!
Best Class Ever! The Top 10 Activities for the English/Language Arts Classroom
Thursday, February 18th -- 10:45-12:00, Dominion South
Friday, February 19th -- 12:45-2:00, Dominion North
Gathered, collected, honed, and refined over the course of two decades in secondary and postsecondary education, the activities presented in this workshop are guaranteed to have your students coming up to you afterwards and saying, "Best class ever!" Whether it's an activity based on a popular game show that brings out our passion for literature, a unit on World Mythologies that uses the framework of reality TV, or a hilarious poetry activity that sees students marry human emotions with mundane objects, participants will get a fist-hand look at some phenomenal classroom activities by getting right in there and having a blast doing them! Participants looking for a fun, activities-based workshop that can be taken directly back to the classroom need look no further.
"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" -- The Top 10 Strategies for Teaching Comics
Thursday, February 18th -- 12:45-2:00, Chestnut
Friday, February 19th -- 2:15-3:30, Dominion South
Understanding that comics and graphic novels have a place in the K-12 classroom is one thing. Understanding how to teach them in a way that empowers students is quite another. This workshop provides practical teaching advice about using comics and graphic novels with struggling, reluctant, probcient, advanced, and even gifted readers and writers by looking at pedagogical strategies that maximize student engagement and build conbdence with the form. The tendency in the past has been to look at how using comics and graphic novels can improve students' engagement with other literary genres, but this can only come about if students brst understand the visual narrative form they're exploring. The workshop will feature a wealth of fantastic print and digital resources that teachers can start using right away in their classrooms
One Fan Expo to Rule Them All...
Despite having its detractors who complain about the long lines, expensive photo ops, and last-minute cancellations attendant with cons, Toronto Fan Expo 2015 was one hell of a good time. Let's face it...if you take that many nerds and put them in any kind of building, you're violating the principles of common sense. You're also bound to have a group of people that are friendly, fun to be around, and generally awesome.
Here were some highlights, one from each day of the conference, in no particular order:
Friday evening: Q&A with James and Oliver Phelps
Saturday morning: Script Reading of Back to the Future
With acclaimed voice actors like Nolan North and Grey Delisle, it was impossible for this session not to be a hit. Throw in an assortment of voices ranging from the Penguin to Bill Cosby, and a cast of actors willing to go from PG-13 to R faster than a speeding bullet, and you can see why the session was such a hit with fans
Thursday afternoon: The crowd
If you only went to FanExpo on Saturday or Sunday and the crowds drove you mental, consider coming on Thursday next year. This birds-eye shot from the overlook shows that there is plenty of room for you to check out the North building. Not only that, but minutes later my family and I were sitting down at a table having pizza for dinner. That's right, we were actually sitting at a table!
Sunday afternoon: The Dark Lord, Sauron
I don't know what motivates someone to spend a warm Sunday afternoon at a crowded Fan Expo convention sweating inside a Sauron costume, but this stood out as a highlight when it came to the great costumes being worn this year. I mean, when you have children who love everything to do with Lord of the Rings, and, most especially, the villains, then you can't get any better than running into this guy.
Fortunately, his infernal graciousness was kind enough to pose for a couple of photographs just between the food court and Artists Alley before taking a couple of steps and being asked by someone else for a photo. Such is the price when you're the Dark Lord.
All in all, the show was once again a tremendous success. Despite being packed on the weekend and despite some of the strange ways we're lined up for events, the people in attendance are the ones who make the event -- kind, considerate, and respectful people who just want to nerd out with one another at the end of the summer each year.
Wall-E Meets Calvin & Hobbes: Introducing the Adventures of Whiz Bang, the Boy Robot!
There is everything to like in The Adventures of Whiz Bang, The Boy Robot. Coming to you from the wonderful imagination of Forrest C. Helvie and beautifully illustrated byMichelle Lodge, the book is perfect for parents and educators looking for great visual narratives for young readers. Here's how Forrest describes the project on his Kickstarter site:
This first full-colored volume contains the longer story of Whiz Bang and Amelia along with 2-3 short, stand-alone comic stories geared for an all-ages audience – especially emerging readers ages 4-7 that will enable readers to easily pick up any issue and follow along without facing the difficulties of continuity. Later volumes will include a continuation of this story along with additional short stories about Whiz Bang, Amelia, and later friends we haven't met yet!
The book is already getting a lot of buzz, with an article on Bleeding Cool coming out yesterday. If you'd like to check out some of the sample pages, you can find them on the Issuu website. Take a moment to check out the publisher as well: Under Belly Comics.
Supporting this project shouldn't require much deliberation. It's a no-brainer. You can see that parents, educators, and members of the comics community feel the same way from the wonderful support it's already received.
Simply put, it's a beautiful book for kids.
"Remember What I Said in Class -- No Comics!" (or, why we shouldn't tell kids that what they like to read is dumb)
A friend of mine who volunteers at a local public elementary school recently told me about an incident he found a little strange. He was working in the library when a grade four teacher brought her class in to get books to read. The teacher was giving the kids all of those instructions teachers give when they bring students to the library: be quiet, be respectful of other people, and ask the librarian for help. As the kids were heading for the stacks, however, she threw in one final instruction:
"Remember what I said in class – no comics!"
My friend found it strange that the students—who routinely take out comics, graphic novels, and Japanese manga—were being instructed to avoid them. "I guess she thought they should be reading other stuff too," he said.
"No, that's not it," I replied. "She was trying to tell them that what they like to read is dumb."
I've often talked with teachers about my experiences as a young reader, and how I was encouraged to read "more challenging" books rather than the superhero comics, Choose Your Own Adventure stories, and Dungeons & Dragons modules that lined my bedroom shelves and eventually led me to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature.
So, it concerns me when I hear stories about teachers actively dissuading students from reading comics, because it runs counter to everything that intelligent people know about reading. If you think about what the above teacher said to her class—if you really think about it—you'll see that it does three things that you should never do to an aspiring reader.
1. It tells students that what they like to read is dumb.
Imagine that you want to build your students into powerful, lifelong readers. Is your first order of business to tell them that what they like to read is a stupid waste of time? Well, when a teacher tells students "No comics" on a visit to the library that's precisely the strategy being implemented. No doubt that teacher is hoping to develop the students into lifelong readers, but he or she is beginning the process by shaming their reading habits.
If the teacher feels that strongly about comics, he or she might say "I would really prefer it if you chose something other than comics this time." This is still pretty terrible, but at least it allows an opportunity for the students to ask the question, "Why?"
But "No comics" means "No comics" and also, I think, "No discussion about comics" as well as "No discussion about why I said `No comics."
2. It tells students that their reading habits should be determined by other people.
A teacher who tells students what not to read puts them in a position that is altogether unfair. Seen as an arbiter of knowledge and an authority on what is right and what is wrong, a teacher wields tremendous power. The problem with the situation above is not simply that the students come to understand that the teacher sees comics as trivial, but that they themselves should somehow be comfortable in having their reading habits determined by other people.
There is no better way to compromise children's ability to love reading than to suggest that other people know better than they do what they should read. Kids are likely to believe you and stop reading what they like. Then, I'm afraid, they are also likely to stop reading altogether.
3. It teaches students that a library isn't a place to discover things but only retrieve them.
The problem with well-intentioned people, I find, is that they never think of the terrible, awful, well-intentioned things they say and do. When teachers tell students "No comics" on a visit to the school library, they teach students that a library—that great repository of possibilities filled with stories, known and unknown—is only a place to retrieve things that the teachers themselves deem acceptable.
Now someone might make the argument that a kid taking out a comic for the fifth time isn't "discovering" anything, but that represents a fundamental misunderstanding not only of children but of the act of reading.
Such an argument presupposes that a child can't discover or rediscover in the act of reading what he or she loves about the comic: its story, its characters, its beautiful artwork. It also presupposes that the child can't discover anything of value in a new comic they might find while looking for the old one. Teaching children that they can only discover things that we allow them to find is to deprive them of the very act of discovery.
About a week after my friend told me about the incident at the library, there was an update to his story. He related that the same teacher had come to the library again with her students, but without the admonition against comics. My elation was short-lived, however. As the students headed off to the stacks, the teacher once again gave them a reminder about something they had obviously talked about in class.
"No Star Wars," she said, as they went to go find their books.
"Oh well," I thought to myself, "I really hope they loaded up on comics."
If you're interested in this article, you might also be interested in Ian Dawe's piece on the Sequart website, "Comics and Literacy: Still Struggling."
Photo courtesy of Sarah Spencer (c) 2015. From left to right, Scott McCloud, Robin Brenner, Raina Telgemeir, George O'Connor, and Glen Downey
On the scale of 1 to awesome, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival for 2015 was awesome. There was literally nothing about it that wasn't. From the tireless efforts of Christopher Butcher and the folks at The Beguiling to the waves of wonderful volunteers to the writers, artists, and fans who came out, the festival was, as always, a tremendous success.
It was personally very rewarding this year given the amazing people I got to meet, talk to, moderate for, and present with. Here were some of the highlights.
Friday -- Teacher-Librarian Day
Friday was Teacher-Librarian Day at TCAF, and I was honoured to moderate and present on "Comics in Education" with Leslie Holwerda, a librarian from the Peel board. Leslie talked about strategies to get young people interested in comics, including her superhero battle that young people find so engaging. I gave a lightning talk called "Three Principles of Comics in the Classroom" and stressed the importance of teaching the history of the form, the vocabulary of the form, and the applications of visual narrative to the writing process. We had a small but engaged audience, with excellent questions all around.
Raina and myself watching Scott McCloud do his thing.
Saturday -- How, Where, & Why Should I Start Reading Comics
What do you get when you put New York Times Bestselling authors with Eisner Award winners? Well, you get a panel that includes four of the nicest people in comics that you'd ever want to meet. What's the cool part? Oh, I get to be on it too!
Fortunately, other than the fact that I talk with my hands a lot more than George O'Connor (The Olympians), Raina Telgemeier (Smile, Sisters, Drama), Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, The Sculptor), or our awesome moderator, Robin Brenner (Understanding Manga and Anime), we all had things in common in our experiences with comics....
...although Scott had the ridiculously unfair advantage of being childhood friends with Kurt Busiek.
Sunday -- Scott McCloud Presents "The Sculptor"
Hats off to Chris Butcher, The Beguiling, and all the volunteers at TCAF. What a wonderful conference!
The CITE 2015 Presentations
Thanks to all of you who came out to my workshops at the CITE Conference today. Great hosting by the CITE executive and the wonderful folks at Hillfield-Strathallan College. Please click on the link below to retrieve the PowerPoint for my second session, "Literary Terms We Never Teach Our Students."
For those of you who want to check out the Prezi from the third session, "The Art of Visible Thinking," I've embedded it below.
Thanks again to everyone who made it out! If you want to get in touch, please email me or get in touch through a contact form!
William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" is a cool little poem to visually brainstorm with a visible thinking activity like sketchnoting. What's even cooler is to get a whole class engaged in putting together their own sketchnotes on the same poem and then taking a look at the final results, either with an installation that's spread across the classroom bulletin boards, a repository of the scanned doodles saved as a Google doc, or the completed sketchnotes tweeted out for all to see.
Williams was influenced by so many different developments that were happening not just in American poetry but throughout the visual and performing arts. Looking at what he, Stevens, cummings, H.D., and Stein were doing in those first three decades of the 20th-century shows just how impactful someone like Pablo Picasso was on the development of their writing.
One has no idea what someone like William Carlos Williams would have thought about visual brainstorming, visible thinking, or sketchnotes, but something tells me that he and others like him would have been rather fond of the practice!
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Although away on a short hiatus for a couple of days, I still got up to some doodling -- this time about a subject I know pretty well: the history of chess in literature. This visible thinking sketchnote is actually pretty linear, moving from the centre down the right hand side of the page, and then hanging around the bottom before it moves upward. Of course, it can be read in any different number of ways, but the way I've suggested allows the reader / viewer to trace the historical progression.
The study of games in literature is known as the field of ludology, which served as the focus of my Ph.D. I think visible thinking and sketchnoting are pretty natural for someone who looks at games, play, and sport under the larger umbrella of motif studies. It's an area in which constantly drawing rich connections is vitally important.
Hope you're enjoying the Visible Thinking Project, and let me know if you'd like your own work featured on the site!
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My first graphic novel, Fire Mountain, has a kind of a neat story that goes along with it. While homeschooling our son, Will, we found that he had developed a pretty strong fascination with ancient Rome, and more specifically, the destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
Well, lo and behold, the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa/Hull just happened to be having an exhibition of the plaster casts made by Giuseppe Fiorelli who, in 1863, discovered that air pockets left in the layer of ash covering Pompeii were left by decomposed bodies. This encouraged him to inject plaster into the voids and recreate the death throes of those who perished when Vesuvius erupted.
There was no question about whether or not we were going to see the casts. When a child is being homeschooled and the very thing he loves to read about is going to be on display in a museum, you really have to get to that museum even if it hadn't originally been in the holiday forecast.
At the museum, our son was in his element, not only in going from room to room examining the artifacts, but in finding this little gem of a DVD, Pompeii: The Last Day, that he absolutely couldn't get enough of:
When we got back from our trip, he couldn't stop drawing temples and ruins and gladiators and just about everything else "Ancient Roman" he could draw. The whole time he was telling me that I should write a book about Pompeii and that he'd draw the pictures.
As luck would have it, I was asked shortly after our return to write for a new series of graphic novels called Timeline produced by Rubicon Publishing in Oakville for Scholastic Canada. I already knew the title of the first book I would write and I also knew a certain eight-year old that would be drawing up a storm when he knew what I'd be doing.
The book became Fire Mountain, and was illustrated by Liam Thurston for Rubicon/Scholastic. It shows, I think, how a young child can be genuinely inspired when homeschooling allows for genuine, self-directed learning, and how the child's excitement about his own learning experiences can subsequently inspire others around him.
Well, in honour of 3/14/15, I thought I'd put together a neat little visible thinking example that celebrates that most irrational of numbers, pi. Despite being an English type, I initially cut my postsecondary teeth in the Faculty of Science at McMaster University in Hamilton. If I could have taken only courses in solving mathematical word problems, I would have become a mathematician, but alas, they do other things in the faculty.
Like the Fibonaaci sequence, pi has always been a source of fascination with me, so I thought I'd share a little bit of that with you since I won't have a chance to until next century rolls around.
It's only fitting, I think, to call this the 3.1415.th post of the Visible Thinking Project. In several future posts, I plan on returning to a mathematical theme.
But hey, if you have some cool examples of visible thinking that you'd like to see published on Comics in Education as part of the Visible Thinking Project, please make sure to send them our way!
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There are many reasons why Margaret Atwood is awesome, not the least of which is her poetry. I've taught it many times and have had great success with it, especially when it comes to having students connect with it. A great example, that I've shared in the past, can be found in a previous post, "Margaret Atwood, Comics, and the Awakened Imagination."
When I read Atwood, what strikes me is her curiosity about things that have a kind of dual nature. I don't know...maybe that's the wrong expression. It's things that we can't pin down or fix...whether it's snakes, or photographs, or mushrooms, or the moon, or mirrors...
When we take a look at this little visible thinking exercise, I think there's a lot we can take away from it. I've always loved reading Atwood because of her preoccupation with the strange and delightfully odd nature of seemingly mundane things.
That's what a great poet does--they think about these things. Then, they let their gift with words do the rest.
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Comics Literacy Awareness -- Building Literacy through Comics and Graphic Novels
UK's Newest Literacy Charity
If you're looking for a charity to support literacy and a lifelong love of reading, you need look no further than CLAw (the Comics Literacy Awareness organization):
Comics Literacy Awareness (CLAw) is an exciting new literacy charity formed by a group of passionate and highly experienced trustees from the fields of education and comics.
If you'd like to help the organization, there's a way to do so. CLAw is now accepting support through its UK website. Here's an update from CLAw trustee, Paul Register:
Comics Literacy Awareness now has a special section on the website for people wanting to make donations to help us with our mission. Any size gift would be gratefully accepted and will help us in our efforts to increase the literacy levels of UK children through the medium of comics and graphic novels. We're going to need a lot of funds over the next few years and this is where it starts.
With an awesome group of trustees, a links page, and an overview of the Stan Lee Excelsior Award (you can check out our article from last year on this cool program), what's not to love?
This is, quite simply, a literacy organization you should support...
"Nuff said!"
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Visible thinking and visual brainstorming are great activities for literary onomastics, the study of names and naming in literature. I've done a bit of this before, specifically for Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Have a look at what can be done with Pip Pirrip's name in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
And as I mention at the bottom of the visible thinking exercise above, this is really just getting things started. Indeed, using visible thinking in connection with the study of onomastics can yield some really special insights. All you really need is pen, paper, and a dictionary!
If you want a good one to tackle using visible thinking and visual brainstorming to look at names, try F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Make sure you have a couple of pieces of paper, though. That one is a doozy!
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An Exercise in Visible Thinking Lunacy
My goal with the Visible Thinking Project is to generate 365 scribbles, doodles, or other visual brainstorms at the rate of one per day for the next 365 days. Sometimes, I hope to post more than one a day and other times I'll be resting. My goal in undertaking this is to help those who find the site's resources useful and to thank users for a great first year here at Comics in Education. So, for the first visible thinking post of the series, I thought I'd go old school...
I won't comment too much on these doodles. This one helped me to clarify some of the connections between Hamlet's "To be or not to be" and Iago's "I am not what I am." The weird connection begins with them sharing the curious literary device of epanalepsis, and then things just get weirder from there.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these exercises in visible thinking throughout the next year. Better yet, I hope you'll submit some of your own that we can feature on the site. If you have something you'd like to share, get in touch with us through our contact page. We'd be happy to share it!
See you in a year!
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Why Read Comic Books?
When I was about 10 or 11 years old I can remember going to my school library and taking out a copy of Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective for about the sixth or seventh time. I can remember the librarian telling me that I was very good reader and that I should challenge myself with some more difficult books rather than the assortment of mystery stories and Choose Your Own Adventure books that I was voraciously reading.
When I give talks at conferences, I often share with my audiences my most distinct memory of this incident, and I think it's this memory that most profoundly shaped who I became as a reader and academic.
I remember thinking that the librarian was giving me terrible advice.
Even at a young age I knew that the secret to having a lifelong love of reading was to read books that I loved. How else was I supposed to do it? Besides, my parents encouraged me to read whatever I wanted and there was no way the librarian was going to know better than them, right?
I mean, I loved Encyclopedia Brown and Trixie Belden and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and Dungeons and Dragons manuals, and so it was impossible for me not to also love comics. Now, I'm sure at a tender young age I could have read Poe and Hawthorne and Dickens and Austen, but I sure as hell wasn't going to read any of that when I had Tomb of Horrors or the final issue of Omega the Unknown to get to.
I'm sorry, but the classics would have to wait.
And as it turned out, my formative reading experiences didn't compromise my learning and I didn't leave reading behind once I "grew out" of the books I was devouring. Instead, I just grew into other books when fancy struck me, which was a bit later than it is for most. And I still continued to enjoy mystery novels and comic books and adventure stories and fantasy role-playing games even as I was tearing through The Divine Comedy and Martin Chuzzlewit.
And then I proceeded to do a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in English literature, and a B.Ed. in English and Mathematics education. I wrote my dissertation on Anne Bronte, Thomas Hardy, and Lewis Carroll, published papers in academic journals in the field of game studies, and undertook a career in education. Since then, I've worked as an editor, reviewer, and consultant, and written nearly 100 books for children and young adults, many of which have been part of award-winning series.
So why read comic books?
Well, I guess it's so that when someone tells you that you should be challenging yourself, you can tell them that they're an idiot and don't know what they're talking about...
Or you can just think it, like I did.
Much more than a series of lessons...
A lot of educators have approached me asking about how I teach Art Spiegelman's Maus. I've considered putting together a conventional unit plan, but I've always resisted, in part because I don't feel that the graphic novel is best served by taking a conventional approach. If we are to produce students that can go beyond "receiving" meaning and indeed can learn to "make" it, then something else is needed.
Enter Maus: An Inquiry-Based Unit Plan in 5 Lessons. You might initially think that five lessons means five classes, but there is no limitation on how much or how little time is spent on the five areas of investigation that the unit plan highlights.
And as I said earlier, calling it a unit plan undervalues it I think. It's a way of approaching Maus that forces the student to inquire in a profound way--to ask deep questions about the Holocaust, literary biography, guilt, memory, the history and tradition of visual narrative, racism, genocide, and Maus's place as a work of literature.
Here's what I mean by different:
Each of the five lessons has relevant questions that teachers and students ask as they make their way in a clockwise fashion beginning at the top. But as for where your lesson can go, the unit plan is designed to allow it to go wherever you like. How much time you allow students to investigate Art Spiegelman (as a writer, artist, chronicler of his father's experience, etc.) or Vladek (as a Holocaust survivor, husband, father, etc.) is entirely up to you. The power of this plan, then, is that it doesn't limit you in any way and encourages students to inquire without restrictions. This is not a series of traditional lesson plans with an assessment at the end. This is a series of crazy, cool, provocative questions and insights that hopes to inspire you to build powerful inquirers in your students.
The unit plan is currently available in our store, and is loaded with ideas that can serve as jumping off points. There is no attempt in this six page pdf to be exhaustive, and yet the possibilities that it opens up for studying Maus will allow you to take as much time as possible covering the unit.
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Those looking for a Kickstarter to support, you have just enough time to back Curls: The Ultimate Book Collection. The brainchild of Carolyn Belefski, this collection brings together comic strips "about adventurous situations in Curls's everyday life with a gang of animal friends and a life-sized piece of toast. Here's the video currently running on Kickstarter:
Here's how Belefski describes the project:
Curls is a comic strip written and drawn by Carolyn Belefski featuring a gal named Curls who dreams of adventurous situations that come to play in real-life with a gang of her animal friends and a giant piece of toast. The purpose of this Kickstarter is to collect every strip into a book which will allow readers to see the evolution of Curls—from a university newspaper to an award-nominated comic strip. The book will also include never-before-seen extras, including sketches and behind-the-scenes glimpses of the creation process.
Although Belefski's project has gotten a lot of early support on Kickstarter--and love from Kickstarter staff to boot--she needs your support in the final stages of her campaign.
So click the image at the top of this post to find out more about the project, and click the button below to go directly to the support page!
Make Your Classroom a Place Steve Would Be Proud Of!
With the interest expressed in our Literary Terms posters inspired by pulp comics, the Comics in Education Store has put together a set of nine Parts of Speech posters featuring the world of Minecraft. Using hilarious examples and containing simple definitions and explanations, these posters are perfect for a junior, middle, or even high school classroom. They are Tablet-Sized (11x17") and sure to draw the interest of students who like their grammar with a dose of Minecraft.
The pedagogical value of the game has been recognized recently in courses like math and science, but why shouldn't it help students learn the fundamental building blocks of the English language?
Check out our Parts of Speech posters today in our store!
Decorate Your Classroom with Posters that Rock!
Now available in the Comics in Education Store are these bad boys: Literary Terms posters inspired by comics from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s! The posters are Tabloid-sized (11x17") and feature a literary term, its definition, its use in a pulp comic panel, and a brief explanation of how the literary device works!
It's clear that in recent years, comics and graphic novels have been used with great success in the classroom in order to inspire reluctant readers, but here they make a great addition to a poster that your students might otherwise pass by.
Check them out today in our store!
The most vital part of the graphic novel - what sets it apart from standard literary novels - is its ability to construct a narrative with both words and images. In a graphic novel, the process of choosing the specific images, scenes, and panel arrangements to tell the story is called encapsulation. Unlike movies, which are continuous, a comic must choose specific moments to present, and must thus ensure that they add significant depth and meaning to the story. In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, difficult topics like revolution, war, and torture must be addressed with poise, but also must be drawn in such a manner that readers will be affected by them. For example, in the accompanying image from the first book, Satrapi chose to use five specific images in order to illustrate her first experience of what becomes a violent confrontation.
The encapsulation of this scene involves five very different images which, taken together, provide the reader with a powerful example of visual storytelling. A tableaux in the third panel showing Marji's mother in a revolutionary stance shows how Satrapi viewed her: as a powerful figure. In the next panel, a contrast made between Marji, wearing a smile dressed in white, and the angry protesters in black intensifies her innocence and isolation from the crowd. The fifth panel on the page is an action shot of men beating the protesters with bats and a speech balloon saying "The scarf or a beating," indicating how quickly the protesters come under attack. WIthout the encapsulation of these specific images, the sentence, "So I went with them, I passed out flyers… when suddenly things got nasty," leaves no lasting impression on the reader. Only with the particular encapsulation Satrapi employs is meaning driven home.
If you wish to cite the above article, please use the following citation:
Wolfe, Talia. "Encapsulating the Moment in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis." Comics in Education, 01 March 2015. Web
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What Are You Looking At? The Extra-Diegetic Gaze in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
The extra-diegetic gaze, which is when a character presented in a photograph, comic, advertisement, film, or other visual medium appears to look out of the frame and often at the reader, is used to great effect in Persepolis. Satrapi's most frequent use of the extra-diegetic gaze is in creating an emotional connection with the reader in order to deliver a more impactful message. One example of this is on page 48, when Marjane tells another girl named Laly that her father, who is allegedly "on a trip," is actually dead.
Were Marji simply to tell Laly that "on a trip" is synonymous with "dead" in the drawn style of the first frame, the reader would view the whole scene from a somewhat detached, third-person perspective. But when the second frame switches to Laly's own perspective and Marji looks beyond the frame at the reader, we are now forced to experience the news from the former's point of view. The direct eye contact and facial expression make the viewer feel part of a real world conversation rather than simply a witness to the one that Satrapi has drawn. This makes for a much more realistic experience of the exchange between the two girls. Satrapi in this instance uses the extra-diegetic gaze to enhance the impact of the scene and to create an emotional connection between the reader and the characters.
Another less common use of the extra-diegetic gaze is to isolate a single character from the other characters in a scene. By making the character look outside of the frame, they appear isolated from the people and things within it.
In the example above, Marjane lies and says that she is French, not Iranian, in order to avoid discrimination. This causes her to feel guilty and alienated from both the people she lives among and her own culture. This is shown in the second frame, where Marjane looks outside of the panel with an unhappy expression on her face. The extra-diegetic gaze allows us to connect more easily with her guilt and sadness, but it also serves to place her back to the other people in the shot. This creates a clear divide between them, mirroring the isolation Marjane feels. Once more, the extra-diegetic gaze reinforces the ideas and themes Satrapi is exploring.
If you plan to cite this article, use the following citation:
Lazzam, David. "What Are You Looking At? The Extra-Diegetic Gaze in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis." Comics in Education, 28 Feb. 2015. Web.
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Glen Downey
Dr. Glen Downey is an award-winning children's author, educator, and academic from Oakville, Ontario. He works as a children's writer for Rubicon Publishing, a reviewer for PW Comics World, an editor for the Sequart Organization, and serves as the Chair of English and Drama at The York School in Toronto.
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In a feature in the 1974 Bluebonnet Bowl program, then-North Carolina State coach Lou Holtz is quoted as saying, "We need a playoff system through which a national champion could be determined. ... It'll never happen, though, because too many teams and too many conferences are making money through the bowl games."
Plenty of money is still being made through the bowls, but fortunately 40 years does not apply as "never" with Holtz's wish having come to fruition. The initial College Football Playoff rankings were revealed Tuesday night and, surprise, the SEC -- led by No. 1 Mississippi State -- dominates the projected playoff field.
SEC West is indeed best
Three teams from the strongest division in college football's strongest conference are among the top four, which is not much of a surprise. The surprise to many is that Alabama does not have a spot at the table. The Crimson Tide is on the lesser side of the velvet rope while No. 1 Mississippi State, No. 3 Auburn and No. 4 Ole Miss are the privileged. Putting the Rebels ahead of 'Bama is something I fully agree with. Even after losing to LSU in Death Valley last Saturday night, it is a solid argument for the Rebels being the second best one-loss team, with the biggest part of that argument the fact that they defeated the Crimson Tide head-to-head. Nick Saban's team, though, will get its shot to ascend the ladder with games against Mississippi State (Nov. 15) and Auburn (Nov. 29) ahead.
It is still early, Buckeyes fans, but it may get late fast -- especially since your team checks in at No. 16. While redshirt freshman quarterback J.T. Barrett continues to grow every week, that early 14-point loss to Virginia Tech is a stubborn stain. The issue going forward is that only one team currently ranked remains on the schedule: No. 8 Michigan State in East Lansing next week. In other words, do not expect much of a climb even if all goes well in the win column.
Resume a little light
The prevailing feeling was that Notre Dame would have a stronger presence in the initial CFP rankings. Instead, the Irish hold up the bottom of the top 10 despite falling just short of beating No. 2 Florida State when an apparent game-winning touchdown was called back. Their standing, though, befits a team with six wins against opponents that are not currently ranked.
'Cats can climb higher
Bill Snyder's Kansas State squad finds itself in pretty good position at No. 9. That is two spots higher than in the AP and coach's polls, and it is deserving. Their only loss was a "good" one at home to Auburn and they defeated then-No. 11 Oklahoma in Norman. The big one is next week when they travel to Fort Worth to take on No. 7 TCU -- with No. 20 West Virginia (Nov. 20) and No. 13 Baylor (Dec. 6) still to come.
Undefeated and unranked
Marshall is undefeated at 8-0 but is taking a backseat to 6-1 East Carolina when it comes to the highest-ranked team from the non-power conferences. The Thundering Herd is not even ranked, while the Pirates stand at No. 23. The Conference USA team's strength of schedule does not match up to ECU's, which while far from daunting, at least featured South Carolina, Virginia Tech and North Carolina earlier this season.
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A delicious treat of bananas deep fried in a crunchy dough.
- 9 oz firm bananas
- 0.25 a lemon
- 5 oz plain flour
- 0.5 pint cold water
- 3 oz unsalted butter
- 4 large eggs (beaten)
- 1 tblsp cinnamon
- 3 tblsp icing sugar
- pinch of baking powder
- Peel and slice the bananas and cut into thick cubes and place in a bowl.
- Squeeze lemon juice over the bananas and cover with cling film.
- In a saucepan put water, cubed unsalted butter and cook on a medium heat until the butter has melted. Then bring mixture to the boil.
- Sieve flour and baking powder together and add all at once to the butter mixture.
- Stirring consistently until the mixture forms a ball of dough and there is no mixture left at the side of the saucepan.
- Transfer the dough to a large bowl and allow to cool slightly and then gradually add the eggs in slowly, beating well in between each addition until the mixture is smooth.
- Stir the bananas into the mixture.
- Heat oil to 180°C. Using an ice cream scoop add scoops of dough to the hot oil in batches.
- Do not over crowd the fryer as this will lower the temperature of the oil.
- Cook the fritters for 10 minutes, turning them from time to time to brown them evenly.
- Use a slotted spoon to transfer the cooked fritters on to a tray lined with kitchen paper.
- While the fritters are still warm, roll them in cinnamon sugar.
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