Tag: teaching inspiration
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Why Teach Fahrenheit 451 in High School?
There are so many reasons to teach Fahrenheit 451 in 10th or 11th grade. Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in nine days. He rented a typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library for 10 cents per 30 minutes, and this forced him to focus solely on writing the book without interruptions. Critics claim that…
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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…