Tag: Teaching
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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…