Category Archives: Literature
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Rethinking Shakespeare’s 5-act Structure
1June 14, 2018 by bhjames78
For most of my twelve years teaching high school English, I’ve taught a lesson on the 5-act structure of Shakespeare’s …
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CATE Conference 2018
Leave a commentMarch 29, 2018 by bhjames78
A few weeks ago, Liz and I flew down to San Diego for our second CATE (California Association of Teachers …
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Holiday Parties and The Dead
Leave a commentDecember 28, 2017 by bhjames78
This essay will be published at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact on January 15th.
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Trolls, Moana, and Joseph Campbell: A Post About Why I Don’t Rope Anymore, and How I Will Again
1August 13, 2017 by bhjames78
Month before last, I read Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I even posted on this blog, …
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This is What Happens When Two English Teachers Raise a Child
1June 27, 2017 by bhjames78
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO ENGLISH TEACHERS RAISE A CHILD: 4-year-old, to preschool teacher, upon arrival Monday morning: …
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Teaching Native Son by Richard Wright, Part Three
Leave a commentJune 15, 2017 by bhjames78
The third part of my post on teaching Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, Native Son, is up at Method to the Madness: Creating …
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George Saunders
Leave a commentJune 7, 2017 by bhjames78
In the spring of 2008, I stood alone in a mostly empty hallway at Franklin High School, laughing out loud. …
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