Think like a Chef & Ender's Game

Oh man.. water polo? My first ever shoulder dislocation was playing water polo..

Anyway, one of my favorite non-cookbooks is called 'think like a chef' or something like that. Very few recipes, but teaches you how to pair tastes and freestyle and stuff. I'll attribute 15% of my success to it.

My school has a classroom set of Ender's Game. I checked one out so I could reread it. Then I realized I didn't have a lesson plan for my freshman class, so I checked out the rest. It's weird to teach that book in terms of themes and motifs and character analysis... but even more weird that it's making me appreciate it even more. One of my kids came in during lunch upset because other kids in our class were giving her shit all the time for 'acting like she was better than them just because she had a good friend she likes to be with in class.' I scrapped my lesson plan and we're spending two days looking at why some characters like Ender and some don't (and vice versa) and why kids are mean to each other. It was awesome.

And if you're wondering, yeah, it's still good.

--fraggle