All right.
Let's do some close reading.
We're going to see some of this at work in a really
terrific very short very dense novel that many of you will have read.
It's called The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by the British novelist Muriel Spark.
You might remember the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith,
who played Miss Jean Brodie, a little context,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel set in Scotland in the 30s,
it's about an extremely charismatic teacher, who has a little group of six or
seven girls who are completely magnetized by her and
her methods are effective on them.
But they're not very welcomed by the administration of the school.
I'm going to read this section but as before we'll leave a couple of important
words out and then at the end of the segment, we'll go to our little game and
I'll ask you to guess what the noun was, what the verb
was and then you'll be able to see what other people in the class have guessed.
Then we'll come back and talk about it in a little more detail.
This section comes form the first quarter or so of the story and
we are listening to Miss Gene Brody herself talk to the girls.
"It has been suggested again that I should apply for
a post at one of the progressive schools
where my methods would be more suited to this system than they are at Blaine.
But I shall not apply for a post at a crank school.
I shall remain at this education, noun.