Tag: Cormac McCarthy
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Teaching The Road: Cormac McCarthy Part II
I’ve been really encouraged by the positive feedback on my previous post about teaching The Road, so I wanted to share even more ideas and activities from my unit. This novel has sparked some of my favorite classroom discussions, and I’m excited to pass along what’s worked well for me. Anticipation Guide To introduce The…
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Teaching Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Engaging Reluctant Readers
“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.” I taught 12th grade for a couple of years. Here is an exaggerated list of the types of students in my class during that time: I am exaggerating a bit of the list above, but…
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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…