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Diversifying the Curriculum: How to Design an Inclusive English Syllabus

Diversifying the Curriculum: How to Design an I...

How can teachers diversify our English curricula by adding more authors of color to our syllabi? Which texts should we add?

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Diversifying the Curriculum: How to Design an I...

How can teachers diversify our English curricula by adding more authors of color to our syllabi? Which texts should we add?

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Facilitating Discussions: The Harkness Method

Facilitating Discussions: The Harkness Method

The Harkness Method is a radically democratic teaching method premised on equality, collaboration, and open-ended discussion. Here are a few things I've learned about Harkness Discussions in my 20+ years...

Facilitating Discussions: The Harkness Method

The Harkness Method is a radically democratic teaching method premised on equality, collaboration, and open-ended discussion. Here are a few things I've learned about Harkness Discussions in my 20+ years...

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see...

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see...

Startled by Poetry: Eamon Grennan’s “Detail”

Startled by Poetry: Eamon Grennan’s “Detail”

Detail (2002) By Eamon Grennan   I was watching a robin fly after a finch — the smaller birdchirping with excitement, the bigger, its breast blazing, silentin light-winged earnest chase...

Startled by Poetry: Eamon Grennan’s “Detail”

Detail (2002) By Eamon Grennan   I was watching a robin fly after a finch — the smaller birdchirping with excitement, the bigger, its breast blazing, silentin light-winged earnest chase...

Ars Poetica: What Is Poetry?

Ars Poetica: What Is Poetry?

Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry (1980) By Howard Nemerov Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned into pieces of snow...

Ars Poetica: What Is Poetry?

Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry (1980) By Howard Nemerov Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned into pieces of snow...

Teaching Hamlet: Shakespeare's Most Enigmatic Play

Teaching Hamlet: Shakespeare's Most Enigmatic Play

Planning to teach William Shakespeare's Hamlet? Despite being one of Shakespeare’s most widely read plays, Hamlet presents challenges for anyone who seeks to interpret it. That may be why T. S. Eliot...

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Teaching Hamlet: Shakespeare's Most Enigmatic Play

Planning to teach William Shakespeare's Hamlet? Despite being one of Shakespeare’s most widely read plays, Hamlet presents challenges for anyone who seeks to interpret it. That may be why T. S. Eliot...

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