Month: November 2010

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – review of advance screening

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Today my four sons and I had the incredible privilege of attending a private screening of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. C. S. Lewis’s stepson Douglas Gresham introduced the movie and answered questions from the audience afterward. (More on the Q&A session to come in another blog post.) Narnia has enchanted me since my … Read more

Alternate Endings to Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre provoked quite a heated discussion in my literature class for 9th-12th-grade homeschoolers. Some loved the book; some despised it; and others liked only parts of it. St. John Rivers was universally despised. To bring out the students’ creativity, I asked them to write an alternate ending to the novel. My only requirement was … Read more