Wednesday, September 18, 2024

A Big Hello!

Hello!

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Muna and I teach Prose at Universitas Islam Sultan Agung. At campus, I go by Ms. Muna. It's actually not Miss. It's Ms. Same pronunciation but different meaning, if you care at all. 

Source: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/ms-mrs-miss-difference/

Ms. Muna is a professional character that I play very seriously at work (at home, she is a completely different person - mostly a cat person). This Ms. Muna loves a project-based class. It's time-consuming and sometimes she regrets her impulsive ideas in class because it turns out that she needs A LOT of time giving feedback and discussing progress, but at the end of the day, she always thinks it's worth the effort.

This semester we I came up with an idea to document our assignments in a blog project. The blog's name is MANIFESTO. One of my students, Atha, helps me curate this blog. Thank you, Atha! MANIFESTO means a public declaration of policy and aims. To anyone reading our blog, this is not a political blog at all. Our aim is to hone our reading and writing skills. If one day this blog turns into a political blog, you can arrest Atha.

Next week (or was it this week?) our class will publish the first series of book reviews and I am so excited to discuss and read their reviews. I plan to contribute and have some titles in mind. Here are three books that I plan to review: 
  • Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)

  • Anne of the Green Gables (Lucy Montgomery)
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Carl Newport) 

Which one should I review? Let me know what you think in the comment sections!

2 comments:

  1. You should definitely go with *Anne of Green Gables*! It’s the classic one and---if i'm not mistaken---there are some great film adaptations out there. Reading the book first will make the movies even more interesting!

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    1. Hi gentle reader, that sounds like a good choice. I recommend the Netflix series "Anne with E" if you're interested.

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