If you are one of the people reading One Hundred Years of Solitude this summer, you might be interested in this article by Ilan Stavans, about the importance of OHYOS and the influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: García Márquez, however, is its acknowledged fountainhead, and for good reason. At the beginning of One Hundred Years […]
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The New York Times has an interesting article about high school rigor today: Kati Haycock, director of the Education Trust, another Washington-based group that advocates standard-setting, said that as she traveled around the country, she found many schools not offering challenging work. “When you look at the assignments these kids get, it is just appalling,” […]
“It's easy not to rebel. It's easy not to protest. The middling lives are so rich in comforts; the poorer lives so abundant in hardships. It's easier not to sing out. Yet history is littered with radicals of thought and deed; swimmers against the currents of their day, trying to keep their heads above the […]
Everyone is going to remember different things about the novels we have read. The point is to use those details that we remember to the best possible effect on the test. Looking over the notes for Grapes of Wrath I was reminded of this small detail. At the beginning of the book, Tom (the son) […]