Literature

September 23, 2011

The Day Flannery O'Connor Screwed Me

Someone really smart once said, “Kids seldom misquote; in fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.” That person might actually have been sitting in my classroom the day I taught Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” to a bunch of 11th graders….

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May 15, 2011

Now About That Winner

I am thrilled to announce that the fabulous Julie C. Gardner author of the blog By Any Other Name was the person…

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April 11, 2011

A Literary Interview With You

Today I am interviewing you about your favorite and least favorite books of all time. …

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March 7, 2011

How I Tricked My Book Club Into Writing

My neighborhood book club has been going strong for nearly three years. This time I was the host, and (gasp) I made them write….

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January 31, 2011

The Giver: Thirteen Years Later

It’s happening. My son is currently reading the first piece of literature that I ever taught. He is reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the story of a young boy named Jonas living in a highly controlled community some time in the future. The novel fits into a larger genre of cautionary tales called “dystopian literature.” If a utopia is a society in which everything is perfect, a dystopia is the opposite: everything has gone wrong. But my son doesn’t get this. Yet….

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January 17, 2011

If My Kid Writes One More Book Report…

I get it. My school district clearly wants our kids to pass the standardized test.

They want a slice of the pie.

But our kids are dying of boredom….

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