You want me to teach what?

Our school runs a program with the University of Oklahoma in which students can get University Credit by taking a distance learning course at our school. About 2 weeks ago, the bosses asked me if I could teach Economics and my answer was "if I can read it, I can teach it". Which they took to mean, "Yes" So on Friday the materials arrived, and for the most part they don't look too scary except for the section where there is math.
I will let you know how it goes.

Melanie put this list on her Facebook. How many have you read?

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

This is a goofy list that doubles up on some items and has some books that seem out of place.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien NO
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee YES
6 The Bible - NO
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte YES
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman YES
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens NO
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott YES
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy YES
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller YES (try teaching this to ESL students!- the chapters are not in time order)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare YES
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier YES
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk NO
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger YES
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger YES
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot YES
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell YES
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens NO
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy YES
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams YES
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh YES
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky NO
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck NO
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame YES
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy YES
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens NO
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis YES
34 Emma - Jane Austen YES
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen YES
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - NO
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres NO
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden YES
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne YES
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown YES
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving YES
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins YES
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery YES
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy YES
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood YES
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding YES
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan NO
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel YES
52 Dune - Frank Herbert NO
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons NO
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth NO
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon NO
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens NO
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley YES
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon NO
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez YES
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck YES (this is another book I teach but it makes me cry. the kids pick it because its short)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov NO
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt YES
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold NO
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas YES
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac NO
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy YES
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding YES
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie NO
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville NO
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens YES
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker YES
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson NO
75 Ulysses - James Joyce NO
76 The Inferno - Dante NO
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome NO
78 Germinal - Emile Zola NO
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray YES
80 Possession - AS Byatt YES
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell NO
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker YES
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro NO
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert NO
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry NO
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom NO- why is this book on this list?
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle YES
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton NO
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery YES (in French!)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks NO
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams YES
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole NO
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute NO
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas NO
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo NO

I think that is 62 but I keep getting different numbers each time I count.

Wish me luck with the Econ Class.
M