Sunday, March 29, 2026

This Week in Booktube: March 29, 2026
(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below.  Support Booktube.  And let me know what you've watched this past week.)

Google document: docspub

Barry Lyndon: Movie Review



This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/barry-lyndon.html

Saturday, March 28, 2026

The Hobbit 3: The Battle of the Five Armies: Movie Review



This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:


Friday, March 27, 2026

The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug: Movie Review



This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Started: Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners: The SIOP Model [6th edition]
This is a reread of sorts.  I read the 3rd edition of this book last summer.  I am rereading it now both because I want to solidify the concepts in my mind as much as possible, and because I have come to realize that I hadn't read the most current edition.
As a side note: I'm not sure how it was that I didn't get the most current edition when I ordered this book off of Amazon last summer.  When I was searching for this book on Amazon last summer, the 3rd edition was the first one that popped up on my search.  It didn't even occur to me that there were more current editions.  Although the 6th edition of this book changes part of the title to "Multilingual Learners" instead of "English Learners".  So maybe that's why the newest edition didn't spring up when I was searching last summer.  (I was searching for the title based on what SIOP books came up on a library search.)


The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: Poem

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

Transcript: docspub
Video: HERE


The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth: poem


Video: https://youtu.be/4rdx5CjaOLg


The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.


The newest of the Oldest Stories Podcast is out now.  (For my review of the whole series, see here.)


Monday, March 23, 2026

Tootsie: Movie Review



This is part of my so-called "Scripted Review" series, in which I make a Youtube video based on an old blogpost.  For more information on what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE:
In this case, the old blog post is here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/02/tootsie.html


Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Nonfiction book Tag


The tag was created by Bibliophile-Bookscape: https://youtu.be/kuhyyyGyR0M?si=O5VRfk759FLX5qin

1. What originally made you interested in reading nonfiction?
2. Do you read nonfiction mainly for curiosity, learning, or enjoyment?
3. What topic could you read endless nonfiction about?
4. How do you usually discover nonfiction books?
5. Do you follow authors or topics when choosing nonfiction?
6. What nonfiction book stuck with you long after reading?
7. What topic have you learned the most about through books?
8. What nonfiction book made you curious about something unexpected?
9. What topic would you recommend everyone explore at least once?
10. What nonfiction book would you recommend to curious readers?
11. What nonfiction book would you give someone who says they don’t like nonfiction?

Links to stuff mentioned:

I tag:
 @Bucky749  
 @mindysbookjourney  
 @WilliamsLibrary  
 @jimsbooksreadingandstuff  
 @bethannebruninga-socolar  
 @JosephFrancisBurton