For English teachers, reading for pleasure can be tough. After grading papers all day, the last thing I want to do is read more. Also, my personal reading has become subtly oriented toward finding material for my courses; I seem to be approaching every novel and memoir through the (imagined) perspective of a (precocious) seventeen-year-old, Continue reading
The sixth of ten wonderful things about this semester. #6: Rereading One day my IB students and I were discussing how much they wished they had time to reread all the novels we were working on in order to more fully understand them. I said, “If any of you are considering becoming an English teacher, Continue reading