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5 Unlikely Stories That You Won’t Be Able to Put Down
When I hear “public domain,” I picture the free books on my Kindle with the boring primary-color covers and uninspiring content assigned to my AP English classes in high school. So when I decided to comb through our library and …
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7 Famous Authors and their Day Jobs
As summer winds down and a new school year starts up again, it seems like only yesterday when we celebrated the completion of our many school projects and exams. It’s hard not to wonder, “Where did the time go?” It …
Tips for Encouraging Collaborative Learning in the Classroom
How do we invite collaboration and teamwork into the classroom? It can seem easy on paper, but actually getting our students to be open minded about working together often proves more challenging. Collaborative learning gets students working together to solve …
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5 Times King Lear Had Some (Surprisingly) Good Advice
There’s no putting it lightly: Shakespeare’s King Lear contains so much tragedy that it gives Game of Thrones a run for its money. The play is brimming with family betrayal, loss, and struggles for status, wealth, and power that drive …
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What You Should Name Your Pets, According to Famous Authors
In a previous installment, we more or less advocated for naming all of your pets “Toots.” Maybe you took that to heart, or maybe you rather enjoyed the dog names that famous authors have endorsed. Well, we’re back, and this …
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Best Beatrice and Benedick Insults, Explained
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is one of his most successful romantic comedies. It is ridiculously funny, in part because the banter is so absurd (the characters even more so), but also in part because unlike other Shakespearean comedies, there’s …
Reading Comprehension as an Asset
A couple years ago, The New York Times published a piece titled How to Get Your Mind to Read. Since we’re all about reading here at eNotes, we eagerly devoured the post and have revisited it many times. Since improving …
7 Literary One-Hit Wonders
Some writers churn out new works like unstoppable machines. Dickens, Shakespeare, Austen—all of these writers died not only with multiple major literary works to their names but also produced many successful texts that remain immensely popular to this day. On …
