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June 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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Category: Education, Literature, Uncategorized, writing
| Tags: aristotle, aristotle poetics, english language arts, english teachers, five act structure, freytag, freytag's pyramid, freytag's triangle, hamlet, Literature, poetics, shakespeare, shakespeare five act structure, teaching english, three act structure
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March 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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| Tags: alice walker, american literature, cate conference 2018, Education, english language arts, english teachers, george saunders, high school english, lorrie moore, sticks by george saunders, teaching, teaching literature, the flowers by alice walker
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December 28, 2017 by bhjames78
This essay will be published at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact on January 15th.
Category: Literature, Uncategorized, writing
| Tags: a christmas carol, a portrait of the artist as a young man, charles dickens, christmas, dubliners, finnegans wake, holiday parties, james joyce, joyce, Literature, the dead, ulysses
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August 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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| Tags: hero cycle, hero's journey, joseph campbell, moana, rodeo, roping, team roping, the hero with a thousand faces, trolls
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June 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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Category: Education, Literature, Parenting, Uncategorized
| Tags: english teachers, macbeth, Parenting, preschool, shakespeare
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June 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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| Tags: close reading, critical thinking, Education, Literature, native son by richard wright, native son lesson plans, teaching literature, teaching native son, teaching strategies, writing
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June 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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| Tags: books, creative writing, denis johnson, fiction, george saunders, junot diaz, lincoln in the bardo, Literature, lorrie moore, pastoralia, sticks by george saunders, tc boyle, tenth of december, the barber's unhappiness, writing