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10 Books We Love to “Hate” for National Book Lovers Day

eNotes August 9, 2020

Confession time: We do love books, but we do not unconditionally love all books. Loving something—promoting it, recommending it, upholding it—makes us all the more more responsible for recognizing and interrogating its flaws. In fact, we find some books so deserving of criticism—and, implicitly, attention—that we can’t help but rant about them time and time…

August New Content Update

eNotes August 3, 2020

Regardless of what it's going to look like, the beginning of the school year is nearly upon us. Here is a list of thirteen new titles to help you get you prepped for back to school reading assignments. 1. Refugee by Alan Gratz Gratz's novel Refugee looks in detail at three interrelated stories of the refugee experience across several…

Top 5 Worst Shakespearean Kingdoms to Live In

eNotes July 20, 2020

If you’re sick of the state of politics, you’re in good company—a lot of Shakespeare’s characters were, too. Shakespeare’s plays are filled with terrible kings and queens, princesses and dukes, but we don’t usually talk about the ways that the average citizen is affected by the actions of those characters. Honestly, a lot of the…

July New Content Update

eNotes July 15, 2020

We've been busy continuing to create new study guides for your education and enjoyment. Here is a list of fifteen of our new titles for July. 1. Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone Cone's Black Theology and Black Power explores and defines the Black Power movement within the context of Christianity, advocating for freeing the gospel…

The New Top 10 American Novels: One profe’s list

eNotes July 1, 2020

This year, the Fourth of July will feel different: the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired a national reckoning around racism that pushes all of us who live in this country to ask deep, critical questions about this country we call “America.”

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9 of the Top Shakespearean Words Students Struggle With—and What They Mean

eNotes April 13, 2020

If you’re reading this post on words in Shakespeare’s plays that students struggle with, chances are you’re studying Shakespeare and are having a few issues with some of the language. Although Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English, his writing contains some remnants of Middle English, as well as a number of words that are no…

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5 Tips to Writing a Great Paper

eNotes March 11, 2020

The fact that you’re reading this shows you probably have a paper deadline coming up sooner than you’d like. You may be stuck in either the introduction or the conclusion—hopefully in the latter, but probably in the former. Do not panic though: as long as you have the topic and a general sense of direction,…

5 Poetry Activities for Your Classroom

eNotes February 11, 2020

Five poetry activities for your classroom.