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Weekly Reads: Late is better than never?
Perhaps you can already guess that my week has been a bit topsy-turvy based on this post going up on a Sunday instead of on Friday! As we get deeper into the Spring term, I’m juggling finishing the year well with planning for the 23-24 school year and this week required quite the circus act.…
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Weekly Reads: Which end is up?
You know those weeks when it feels like you’ve started to get a handle on things, the to do list is getting shorter and then BAM everything blows up? This week was one of those in my world. There was no one thing that went sideways – instead, the week was filled with a meeting…
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Friendship in Othello
I’m the first one to say that Shakespeare is not my cup of tea. I managed to get through an English degree at Kenyon College having never taken a formal Shakespeare class (though if you scroll back through to the start of this blog, you might find a post or two about seeing Shakespeare on…
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Weekly Reads: Short week/long days
It’s been so much fun getting back into blogging! Earlier this week I posted my NEH Institute experience from last summer and next week I have a post ready to go about how I adapted that experience in my classroom. This week has been a rough return to classes – Spring term began on Tuesday…
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NEH Summer Institute: Friendship and Identity in Literature, Film, and Adolescence (Summer 2021)
In the summer of 2022, I took part in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in Boston. The seminar was called friendship and identity and addiction literature and adolescence. And I’m not exaggerating when I say it changed the course of my teaching career period. The NEH seminars are an opportunity for teachers to…
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The Library of Alexandra 