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Am I Crazy?

I really thought about it... I did. Some years it was good, but most of the time it's been not so much. The Christmas Carol is a tough sell to sophomores who don't have a large vocabulary. They get lost in the extensive descriptions of items that no longer exist in modern society. The "misanthropic ice" is a mind bender for them... how does ice congeal into something that hates people?

Then I realized that I really love the story and all the language and surly there is one student amongst the crowd who will discover a love for Dickens. So we're starting off very slowly with figuring out word meaning in context and building characters through allusion, metaphor and Dickens' favorite, the simile.

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