When I was putting together my reading list for the new season, Wuthering Heights jumped out as a book I have been wanting to revisit for a long time. I read it so many years ago, I barely remember it. However, I also knew that I wanted something more out of this reading experience. I have been missing the academic side of being an English teacher (a side that I really didn’t have enough time to fully engage in as much as I would have liked), and I definitely miss being a student. All this ‘back-to-school’ chatter has me yearning for a deeper reading of this classic text.
Ruby Granger, one of the YouTube accounts I follow and love, has recently shared her own personal curriculum. Having finished her Master’s at Oxford, she is currently taking a year out before making her PhD application, and so has set up her own personal curriculum so that she can explore areas that interest her in order to prepare for her continuing studies. While I do not have any such lofty aspirations, I like the idea of making my reading of this more formal, so I am putting together a little scheme of learning for myself, complete with wider reading and assignments!
I was going to go all in and include a Linguistics module too, as well as something linked to Psychology and Evolutionary Biology (the latter two subjects are new to me). But rather than bite off more than I can chew (a dreadful habit of mine), I decided to keep the topic restricted to Wuthering Heights and the Brontes.
I was bought this beautiful edition by Rich a few years ago, so when I decided to re-read it, I also decided that beautiful books deserve to be more than just ornaments. Although I have an old Oxford Classics edition, I will read this gorgeous hardback edition.
Here is my first week which starts this evening!
Notes From My Day 