The Writing Post

Greetings!

Fall begins this month, so my Halloween decorations are out and pumpkin spice is in a variety of forms in my kitchen. Overall, though, it was an interesting week as Labor Day weekend arrived and I only had a four-day work week (next week, too!). I also changed around my publishing schedule to accommodate some older posts rejoining the blog in a new format.

But, getting back to it, today we are going to look at what we learned last week, and then what we are going to learn about this week on the blog.

Last Week

Last week we we analyzed A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court chapters XIX-XXIII. We learned about the “ogre,” which was a pig pen, and Hank Morgan encountered a few different types of travelers, both pilgrims and slaves, before saving a community fountain using his magic abilities (science!).

Additionally, I shared with you what my day looks like as a teacher. It gets to be very busy. We also learned about ogres in folklore and media, and reviewed the first post ever made on The Writing Post.

Continuing, we analyzed a poem from The Count of Monte Cristo and explained its relationship to Mark Twain’s Yankee novel. Lastly, I reposted another post from 2020 about Henry Fielding.

This week

This week we are going to continue reading the Mark Twain’s novel for our book study. We are going to summarize and analyze chapters XXIV-XXVIII, and with chapter titles like “A Rival Magician” and “The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito” we are bound for some adventures.

We are going to take a look at “small pox” for our Word of the Week and hear a relevant quote about the illness from history (or literature). We are also going to build prior knowledge and context by looking at a day in the life of a feudal peasant.

Toward the end of the week we are going to review an older post from the blog, and then (hopefully) get around to looking at Arthurian films.

Hope to you stop by for a visit this week!