When we read William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize speech in high school English, it really stuck with me. I think it will be agood way to open up a lit class. Asking students why litereature is important, why we read it, what it means. Faulkner has...
Though I’m not sure how much “world” it is. Here’s my list for this summer: Jane Austen Persuasion Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Margaret Atwood The Handmaid�s Tale...
The novel by Jane Austen. Will be the first that I teach in my summer class. here I will start a collection of links and ideas to help prepare for teaching the book. List of occurrences of the word �persuasion�: it would be good to tell the students...
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I stumbled upon these sites while looking up Jane Austen stuff.
transcript of IM thread.
(probably not useful to anyone but me. However, I think it would be a good basis for a paper.)
Tree writes and I respond I won’t try to distinguis voices, but it’s us with stuff from Dom too.
A great article.
The first comment on this piece is perhaps the best story I’ve read all year.
Since I am now teaching World Lit this summer, I’m scouring the web even more ernestly for material. Here is one syllabus I found online:
I recently posted this comment on Amy Welborn’s blog. but wanted my own record of it. She was writing about a diocese that has decreed that the bride it not to process down the aisle with her father.
Here’s the link:
Sadly, I’m seeing the result of the anti-Christian rhetoric in my classes. Some of my students have written responses to readings that betray a steady diet of unquestioned anti-Christian hatefulness. One student went so far as to say America...
