In a very digital age for our young boys, I encourage them all to sit or lie on their bed and read before they go to sleep.\u00a0 I would suspect that you enjoy the same as a relaxing way to unwind.\u00a0 As an English teacher I enjoy reading (and would even if I did not teach) and currently I am reading four books. Two of these books are school based and the other two are biographies.\u00a0 Let me tell you about these.<\/p>\n
King of Shadows<\/u><\/em> by Susan Cooper, explores a young boy who is involved in Shakespeare\u2019s play \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d.\u00a0 Nat is haunted by echoes of the past, falls ill and then wakes to find himself back in 1599 and comes face to face with William Shakespeare.\u00a0 <\/em>In Year 7, we are studying introductions to Shakespeare, looking at three plays, along with the novel.<\/p>\n The Bonsai Child<\/u> by Judith Y Locke is one of those books on how to bring up children. Let me assure you that we are doing a great job.\u00a0 One article spoke about a 4 year old who made the decision for the family that they were not moving overseas so that the mother could further her career. It\u2019s an OK read and by no means am I trying to sell you a book.\u00a0 However, I will say and I am sure that you would all agree with me that children need to be taught how to grow up from the day they are born, not 13!!<\/p>\n Bristow<\/u>, by Kevin Perkins explores to life of Tim Bristow, former Shore Boy, sent his son to Kings, became a private investigator, spent some time in gaol.\u00a0 There are so many stories in one book that are very confronting and also funny.\u00a0 There was one time when he was playing rugby for Gordon against Norths and he had an argument with Basil Holmes Travers, and he hit him\u2026.problem solved.<\/p>\n CSNY,<\/u> by Peter Doggett celebrates the 50th anniversary of Crosby, Still, Nash and Young\u2019s performance at Woodstock and their first album.\u00a0 Why am I reading this you may ask?\u00a0 Well I enjoy music so that\u2019s a start and of course love reading.<\/p>\n Make sure you have your son reading at home before bed as we are trying to work on this here.\u00a0 Finally, the Year 12 boys are deep in the HSC trials and the Year 11 begin their exams on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a very digital age for our young boys, I encourage them all to sit or lie on their bed and read before they go to sleep.\u00a0 I would suspect that you enjoy the same as a relaxing way to unwind.\u00a0 As an English teacher I enjoy reading (and would even if I did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[12],"class_list":["post-2748","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_tag-robson-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}