The Moby Dick Project: Log 2

Here is a long-delayed update on my progress in the Literary monster of a classic, Moby Dick: I'm on page 135 of 549. I have been reading this book for a month, and that's as far as I've gotten. Herman Melville is not my favorite author by any stretch of the imagination, but I have [...]

The Moby Dick Project–Log 1: Introduction and First Observations

Location: end of Chapter 1 Status: Pleasantly surprised As I stated in my "Summer Reading" introduction blog, I'm tackling the challenge of reading Moby Dick for the purpose of discovering if it's a) possible to create high school lesson plan around this book that students will engage in and b) if it's worth the effort [...]