Hair Salon Musings

I took my son to get his hair cut today (which he needed badly!). I brought a book along to pass the time while I was there—Joseph Campbell's Myths to Live By. I guess I took it because having written about him yesterday, I thought I'd revisit some of his writings. The more I read about what he writes, the more I become convinced that helping students make "meaty" (substantial) connections to other ideas is the right thing to do to help them "think." I tried to do the connection thing with the novel, The Road, that I taught in the Sophomore literature class. In fact, I think I most definitely tried to do it in all the classes I taught, including the other two American Lit. classes with the Juniors.