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30.8 - Ava Catherine's task: Sylvia Plath
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The Girl He Used to Know
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Made You Up
Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life
The Midnight Library
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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Hello! I have a quick question. I am interested in reading The Girl He Used to Know but the MPG Mental Health is the second to last MPG. Is there a way you can confirm that it fits the task in case it is knocked off the main page before I have a chance to read it?
Meagan wrote: "Hello! I have a quick question. I am interested in reading The Girl He Used to Know but the MPG Mental Health is the second to last MPG. Is there a way you can confirm that it fits..."
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Please approve Stay for Mental Health > Mental Illness which is currently last on the genre list. Thanks!
Amy wrote: "Please approve Stay for Mental Health > Mental Illness which is currently last on the genre list. Thanks!"genre noted
Option 3 - initials in either order or fixed as WY and TE?
♞ Pat wrote: "Option 3 - initials in either order or fixed as WY and TE?"Initials are fixed. WY and TE
Would you please confirm Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life for Mental Health? Thx!
Ann A wrote: "Would you please confirm Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life for Mental Health? Thx!"genre confirmed
If I want to do Option 2: Beekeeper’s Daughter for both tasks, is it acceptable to use the same author for both books?
Fly wrote: "If I want to do Option 2: Beekeeper’s Daughter for both tasks, is it acceptable to use the same author for both books?"Yes, you may use the same author for both books.
Deedee wrote: "For Option 4Please confirm The Midnight Library for
Health > Mental Health
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Dlmrose wrote: "Please confirm Mental Health genre Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day"genre noted
Hi, Could you confirm the following please for MPG Mental Health?Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
Margo wrote: "Hi, Could you confirm the following please for MPG Mental Health?Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism"
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Sandy wrote: "Please confirm Mental Health genre for Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. Thanks!"genre noted
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This is a two book task. Read one book from two different options or two books from one option.
Required: Identify which option or options you select when you post.
No books with the MPG Childrens or Kids may be used.
After reading the recently published biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark, I have been thinking about the genius of her work.
Option 1: Life/Death
Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 and died in 1963.
-Read a book first published in 1932, or read a book first published in 1963.
Option 2: Beekeeper’s Daughter
Sylvia’s father Otto died when she was eight-years-old. Because of their close relationship and her young age, Sylvia felt abandoned due to his death. Otto Plath earned his PhD in biology at Harvard and taught at Boston University. He was a beekeeper, and he taught Sylvia about bees, too. She wrote a celebrated series of poems about bumblebees, and in 1962 she raised bees herself in Devon, England.
--Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in BEEKEEPERS. The letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase. Middle names/initials may be ignored.
Option 3: Idols
Plath’s literary idols were William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot
-Read a book with a single author whose first and last name initials are either WY or TE emulating either William Butler Yeats or T.S. Eliot. Middle names/initials may be ignored.
Option 4: Mental Health
At the time Sylvia Plath was attending Smith College, very few friends knew she suffered from episodic depression even after a suicide attempt and several months at McLean Hospital, where she received botched electroshock therapy treatments. Sylvia said it was like being murdered and that she would kill herself before enduring such torture again.
In 1963 she was in a deep depression; however, because Plath had been a victim of psychiatric mismanagement and negligence when she was twenty, she was terrified of additional treatments for depression. Therefore, after getting no help from her psychiatrist on the telephone, the day she was scheduled to enter a British psychiatric hospital, February 11, 1963, she committed suicide.
-Read a book with MPG mental health or the MPG mental illness. (MPG may be stand alone or embedded)