After teaching The Great Gatsby for many, many years, I couldn’t help but get bored with the same old interpretation of the geography: East Egg represents the old rich, West Egg represents the new rich, The Valley of the Ashes represents industrialization. Blah, blah, blah. That’s why I was excited to find a totally different (although…
Author: mscharlestonyawp
Enotes Revives Dead Poets
In the midst of teaching, my mind often wanders to the great inspiration of Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society. I first saw this film as an aspiring teacher and was so moved that I cried all the way home. There was something about those students standing up on their desks in support…
Drawbacks to the Kindle in the Classroom?
If you were to go back to the old copies of the novels and plays I still rely upon—To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet—to do my daily teaching, you would see all sorts of scribbled notes in different colored pens. You would see highlighters in every color imaginable. You would see small pieces…