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March’s Teacher’s Corner: Blended Learning
In the olden days—really not that long ago—technology in the classroom was an intercom connection with the office and a 16mm projector that showed black-and-white documentaries. When film strip projectors arrived on the scene, they represented real innovation; a film strip machine …
Buried Under Papers: 5 Grading Survival Tips
It’s that time again. Actually, if you are an English teacher, it’s always that time. You feverishly comment on 45 drafts, hand them back to students…and receive 50 more. In the meantime, 3rd period’s pop quizzes are getting moldy, six …
February’s Teacher’s Corner: Surviving the Last Stretch of February
According to poet T. S. Eliot, the “cruelest month” is April, but teachers, I’m sure, would disagree. Anybody who’s herding a group of tired-out kids through the post-winter break curriculum knows that it’s not April that’s really a challenge. It’s February, the …
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The King in Yellow: Analysis and Plot Summary of the Book that Inspired HBO’s True Detective
HBO has a monster hit on its hands with True Detective, a very dark Southern Noir cop show that takes place in Louisiana. The show is littered with references to the 1875 book by Robert Chambers entitled The King in Yellow. …
Official Trailer for The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games is coming to theaters and the first official trailer has been released. What do you think? Will the movie be able to live up to your expectations?
Bikini Shakespeare? Thanks, YouTube
Ah, YouTube. While it’s undoubtedly a place to be entertained, discover amazing talent, and even learn, it’s also home to pretty much the worst in lowest-common-denominator promotional content of every stripe. Several readers emailed the eNotes tipline to let us …
Shakespeare in the Original Pronunciation: Worthy Exercise?
Opening ext week at the University of Kansas, a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is billed as the first original pronunciation production of a Shakespeare play to ever be staged on American soil. The video above is from the …
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Watch The New Hamlet Film Online
PBS is now streaming their recent adaptation of Hamlet starring David Tennant as Hamlet, Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius and the Ghost, Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, and Edward Bennet as Laertes. The film was directed …
