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Reading While Nursing 6 Poetry

The New Yorker April 6, 2020 Jose Antonio Rodriguez. "Shelter". 48-49.      "In that illusion of shelter, though perhaps        They were closer to poetry's pursuit, that edge of oblivion        Where words begin becoming insufficient [...]"

Reading While Nursing 5 Journals

The New Yorker (Jan 20, 2020) Menand. Louis. "How Affirmative Action Has Evolved". 62-68. The New Yorker (Mar 23, 2020) Dyer, Geoff. “Existential Inconvenience: Life in the Shadow of Coronavirus”. 17-18.  Gawande, Atul. “The Blight: How Our Economy Has Created an Epidemic of Despair”. 59-63. (Health Insurance; suicide rate of white working class; USA problem) The New Yorker (Mar 30, 2020) Leprechaun, Jill. “Don’t Come Any Closer: What’s at Stake in Our Fables of Contagion?”. 22-25. (Literature of pandemics) Gopnik, Adam. “Abundance of Caution: Entering a Time of Containment, New York is at its best and its worst.” 38-55. (Pandemic, social class) Denby, David. “Chain Me UP: Harry Houdini and the art of escape”. 67-70. “Houdini evoked actual cruelties - slavery and imprisonment, people cast into filthy cells and tormented for years. [...] He burrowed into the unconscious of the human race, evoking types of public sadism that had been suppressed, only to r...

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Christie, Agatha. Cat among the Pigeons . (1959) (7/Apr/2020)   

Reading while Nursing 3

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Hall, Sarah. Mrs Fox. (2013) (26/Jan/2020)

Online resource for kids at home

PE with Joe  here Music Lesson with Lindsey here here Lunch doodles with Mo Willems  here CBeebies:Andy’s Wilde Workout  Animation  The Land Before Time Dinosaur Train

Reading while Nursing 1

Hellman, Lillian. The Children’s Hour. (1934) (finished reading on 31/Mar/2020)       Film adaptions and other information here here