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Highlights from the Seniors’ Blogs
Here are some exemplary blogs from Trimester 1 of the IB Higher Level year two class. Happy reading! Jordynn Lurie created a truly wonderful music video that combined many of the contradictions and equivocations that the witches use Macbeth. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, English teaching, literature, Macbeth
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Address to the Poetry Out Loud Audience, Tallahassee, FL
Thank you, Sandy and Ken, for inviting me to speak at today’s event. More importantly, thank you for hosting an event that has continued to for both my brain and for my heart over the past six years. The … Continue reading
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Tagged arning, Education, learning, literature, poetry, poetry out loud, teaching
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Mash Up The Shakespeare!
Ludacris channels Othello? Justin Timberlake in conversation with Desdemona? Bob Marley meets the characters of Twelfth Night? It all happened last week in my English classes, and students made it work. I got the concept of mashed-up literature from Chris Shamburg, who … Continue reading
A Year in the Life of an English Class 