Very quiet class. Only eight students and they're doing a SAC, which entails writing up an "extended investigation". I've got them for the first of double period. This is sweet: no little recalcitrants running around being noisy and giving cheek. I spend the time writing up some top 10 lists. I know it stamps me as incredibly 'old school' and just a touch nerdy, but I don't care.
Top 10 Twentieth Century Novels
Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Ulysses, James Joyce
To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1984, George Orwell
My Brother Jack, George Johnstone
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watership Downs, Richard Adams
Top 10 Nineteenth Century Novels
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoievsky
Huck Finn, Mark Twain
Tess of the Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Top 10 Sixties Albums
Arthur, The Kinks
The White Album, The Beatles
Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan
The Band, The Band
Beggar's Banquet, The Rolling Stones
The Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground and Nico
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Younger Than Yesterday, The Byrds
Gilded Palace of Sin, The Flying Burrito Brothers
Dusty In Memphis, Dusty Springfield
Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
Top 10 Seventies Albums
Muswell Hillbillies, The Kinks
Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
Number One Record, Big Star
Tapestry, Carol King
Tea For The Tillerman, Cat Stevens
Cosmo's Factory, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
Never Mind The Bollocks, The Sex Pistols
Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
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