Teaching, bluestockings, and blogs

I thought I'd quickly clarify how this blog, these posts, and how my shared items below right relate to teaching. The National Council for Teachers of English have established Standards for the Language Arts which detail all the reasons why teaching English is important and how this teaching should be accomplished. In my opinion, underlying all of it though, is a joy in written and spoken communication. A love of books. A love of language. A love of art in whatever form it takes. Sometimes this love takes the form of being prickly about "improper" use of language (is there really such a thing?), as the Grammar Girl feeds indicate. Other times it will take the guise of sharing a book review or a previously unknown author, as my previous post did. Sometimes it shares news about new forms of communication such as wikis and blogs. More than anything, this blog and the feeds are meant to convey the avid and widespread interests a bluestocking or a lover of language should possess.