Catholic Book Reader

  The assassination of JFK was always fascinating to me as a kid. I felt the same about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln or the sinking of the Titanic. Those seem to be turning points in history. I always wondered what would happen if I could go back in time and change just one of those events. 11/22/63 lets you travel back in the past to see if the assassination can be stopped.  Synopsis Jake Epping is a typical high school teacher wrapping up his grading at the end of another school year. He is just about to leave when he gets a call from Al Templeton, the local burger joint owner, to stop by his place before heading home. Al tells Jake about a secret that he has been keeping. Al has found a portal that allows him to go back to the late 1950s. Al has been using this to get cheap hamburgers for his diner but last time he decided to try to save Kennedy from the assassination on 11/22/63. Al has lung cancer and asks Jake to step into the portal to save JFK and make all thin...

Textbooks are not normally a book that gets discussed in a blog. However, my education background demands that I discuss textbooks. I started my professional career as a biology teacher. I love the subject but never felt that the textbooks properly conveyed biology. They tried to reduce life to atoms, molecules, and cellular processes. I eventually taught math and religion. This change allowed my frustration with biology to be shelved. That is until I came across Christ the King Books  and discovered a real biology textbook.  Christ the King vs All others Most textbooks I taught with used the approach of small to large. They began teaching atoms and molecules, then cells and their processes. Eventually, you move to organ systems and finally organisms. Teaching this way challenged my students. They had little exposure to chemistry. To compensate for that, they would receive a crash course at the beginning of biology. As a student, I hated these chapters and just wanted to learn...