Every month, we select some of the best scholarships around and post them here on our blog. When you are ready to apply, check out our tips on How to Write a Scholarship Essay! Don't Text and Drive Scholarship Amount: $500-$1,500 Eligibility: This scholarship is for high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and for students currently enrolled in…
Beloved books turned film are probably one of the biggest cornerstones of today's cultural foundation (Harry Potter, Twilight, Fault in Our Stars...must I go on?). This coupling allows fans to extend their fanaticism from the pages to the big screen. But sometimes we, er, forget the main points, characters, and themes of the book...and suddenly it's opening night. The…
Read More "8 Novels Turning Into Movies in 2015: Get Your eNotes Book Summaries"
We are amping up for back-to-school so that we're prepared to help our eNoters with summer reading, pop quizzes, and upcoming exams. To kick off the season and help you transition from summer sun to classroom fluorescents, we're excited to announce the #eNotes4BTS contest! What you can win!... All the prizes are designed to help you transition to back…
Read More "eNotes for Back-to-School (#eNotes4BTS): Win a Lifetime eNotes Pass and $500 Grant!"
Every month, we select some of the best scholarships around and post them here on our blog. When you are ready to apply, check out our tips on How to Write a Scholarship Essay! Power Poetry Scholarship Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Applicant must be 25 years of age or younger and be a current or former high school student…
This is Part Four in our Grammar How-To Series. I’ll be brief. It matters, though maybe not the way you think it does. Or maybe exactly the way you think it does. Take the test and find out. 1. Choose the sentence that makes the most sense. a) Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”…
Yesterday the hashtag #YANeedsMore started trending, and we jumped in to watch the conversation unfold. https://twitter.com/enotes/status/624328475835371520 Not surprising was the number of calls for more intersectionality and diversity; we were pleasantly surprised by the rich insight, feedback, ideas, and personal experiences from hundreds of young adult, and proper adult, tweeters. The YA genre and particularly its older readers have…
Read More "Diversity, Intersectionality, and Inclusivity: #YANeedsMore"
In honor of the Mr. Holmes movie release this weekend, starring Gandalf Sir Ian McKellen, we wanted to look back at the various faces of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's infamous detective. The original text describes Holmes as “over six feet” tall and “excessively lean”, with sharp, piercing eyes and a “hawk-like nose” (A Study in…
Fellow literature lovers, take a small sigh of Scout Finch-deprived relief. We've all been holding our breath since Harper Lee's announcement of Go Set a Watchman early February. This book comes more than 50 years after everyone's favorite English class novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee's second novel is scheduled for release July 14, and the first chapter (excerpt below) has been…
Read More "Chapter One Unveiled for Harper Lee’s Wildly Anticipated “Go Set a Watchman: A Novel”"
