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Discussion Group For June 27

For Wednesday's discussion group, we will be reading to page 200 of One Hundred Years of Solitude, rather than the whole book. I hope to see a lot of you there.
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An Interesting Article about One Hundred Years of Solitude

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,…
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AP Makeup Essays

If you are one of the lucky few who needs to complete AP makeup essays, here they are: Essay 1 Essay 2 Essay 3 Essay 4  
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Interesting Article About High School Rigor

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,…
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Deep Thought of the Day

“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;…
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Using Example for the Test

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…
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