Tag: AP Literature
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Teaching Literature: Nurturing Empathy and Knowledge through Challenging Texts
When I was teaching AP Literature, we would read around seven books in one year. All of these books were classics, and not always full of cheer. Sometimes my students would question, why are we reading books that are such downers? Not all the books I taught in my other classes were classics, but they…
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Love of Cormac McCarthy
I was first introduced to Cormac McCarthy’s novels in college. We read All The Pretty Horses, and his writing style is a little complex at first. He does not use much punctuation, no quotation marks, or commas. A Pulitzer Prize winner can do what he wants, right? He disliked using semicolons or exclamation points. To…
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Okonkwo’s Pride in Things Fall Apart
I am writing about identify again today. These thoughts are from when I taught Things Falls Apart by Chinua Achebe (touted as one of the 100 Books ever written) to my AP Literature students. I always started the year with this book. It is unusual, divergent, and exotic all combined into one. Most students have…