Note (Disclaimer from a Gen X writer): I'm working on a different literary revision project related to using Gen Z vernacular to summarize some classic literature. Let me first admit that I am possibly failing miserably at removing myself from my Gen X mindset, and my love of older uses of English, so there is … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Field Check: Flowers Are Winning” – Floral Intensities, v.6: The Gen Z version, I hope…
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard III by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most electrifying studies of political ambition in all of literature, but its real brilliance lies in the way it makes villainy feel not merely monstrous, but theatrical. Richard is not simply a man who pursues power; he is a man who understands that power is inseparable from performance. … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard III by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Requiem of the Meadow” – Floral Intensities, v.5
In the dusk-field, the flowers riselike pale devotions from the darkened soil,their silken mouths half-opento the secrets of the dying light. The wind moves through themas through a chapel of thin bones,and each stem shiverswith the hush of something ancientstirring beneath the earth. Their colours are not bright now,but deepened — blood-warm, bruise-blue,the velvet tones … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Requiem of the Meadow” – Floral Intensities, v.5
Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Second-Language Pedagogy to Foster Social and News Media Literacy
In a digitally saturated public sphere, students increasingly encounter information through social feeds, short-form video, algorithmically curated headlines, and multilingual online communities. This environment makes media and information literacy a fundamental educational priority rather than an optional enrichment. UNESCO defines media and information literacy (MIL) as the set of skills and attitudes needed to access, … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Second-Language Pedagogy to Foster Social and News Media Literacy
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3 is one of the bleakest and most relentless of his early histories, a play in which political legitimacy collapses into brute force and the very idea of kingship becomes inseparable from violence. If Part 1and Part 2 trace the weakening of English rule, Part 3 stages the full catastrophe: … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare
Lit Bites – Modern retellings of classic literature. “All the genius. Half the scrolling.”
The intention here is to introduce the classics to young readers while using a language they might use. As an introduction, the hope is to motivate them to want to explore the original and help them start appreciating the possibility of a larger language of expression. This is partly inspired by the rewritings of Charles … Continue reading Lit Bites – Modern retellings of classic literature. “All the genius. Half the scrolling.”
Revisionist Poetry – “Stillness in Flower” – Floral Intensities, v.4
In a field of quiet colour,the flowers rise one by one,each with its own angle of light,its own way of openingto the morning air. The stems lean gently with the breeze,not resisting, only listening,while the petals shift and settlelike small thoughtsfinding their place. A fragrance moves among them,soft and clear,and the mind receives it slowly,as … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Stillness in Flower” – Floral Intensities, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 is one of the most politically revealing history plays, not because it offers a tidy account of England’s past, but because it stages government as a struggle among vanity, appetite, performance, and weakness. The play is less a celebration of monarchy than a diagnosis of it. Again and again, Shakespeare shows … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Blossoms Under Warning” – Floral Intensities, v.3
In the field, the flowers stand too still,a congregation in borrowed colours,their bright faces turned upwardlike witnesses waiting for judgment. The stems tremble in the wind’s approach,thin as wires, tense with warning,and the petals, once soft as breath,flicker like small flagsannouncing a silent unrest. Their fragrance moves through the airwith a sweetness edged by decay,a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Blossoms Under Warning” – Floral Intensities, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 is one of Shakespeare’s most revealing early history plays because it dramatizes not the triumph of statecraft but the fragility of nations in the making. Rather than presenting England as a coherent political body, the play stages a country already splintering under the pressures of succession, military exhaustion, and competing claims … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 