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Essay on James Joyce and Christmas
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February 17, 2019 by bhjames78

I have an essay titled “Holiday Parties and the Dead” up at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. You can check …
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Category: Literature, Parenting, Uncategorized, writing | Tags: a christmas carol, charles dickens, christmas, dubliners, family, finnegans wake, holiday parties, james joyce, joyce the dead, Literature, scrooge, ulysses
FOUR TYPES OF TEACHERS, ONLY ONE OF WHICH IS REALLY TEACHING
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December 16, 2018 by bhjames78

This week, I have been re-reading John Barth’s The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction, which is John Barth’s ninth …
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Category: Education, Literature | Tags: Education, john barth, lost in the funhouse, real teaching, teachers, the friday book, types of teachers, wallace stegner
Parnucklian for Chocolate Audiobook
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June 15, 2018 by bhjames78

The Audible audiobook of my novel, Parnucklian for Chocolate (first published in 2013 by Red Hen Press), was released last …
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Category: Literature, Uncategorized, writing | Tags: amazon, audible, audiobook, parnucklian for chocolate, red hen press
Rethinking Shakespeare’s 5-act Structure
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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
CATE Conference 2018
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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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Category: Education, Literature, Uncategorized, writing | 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
Holiday Parties and The Dead
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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
Trolls, Moana, and Joseph Campbell: A Post About Why I Don’t Rope Anymore, and How I Will Again
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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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Category: Education, Literature, Uncategorized | Tags: hero cycle, hero's journey, joseph campbell, moana, rodeo, roping, team roping, the hero with a thousand faces, trolls

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