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 …
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 …
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 …