Cakeisnotpie
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Just a professor of medieval literature -- the one you hope you do get -- and scholar of popular culture who obsessively fangirls over Hawkeye, Cap, Bucky, Dean Winchester, Eliot Spencer, and Aragorn, son of Arathorn. I have a type.
State departments of education deciding secondary education English majors don't need to take literature classes but lots of assessment classes is a symptom of the same problem. How do you teach Senior English if you've never read Shakespeare or Chaucer or Toni Morrison?
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
State departments of education deciding secondary education English majors don't need to take literature classes but lots of assessment classes is a symptom of the same problem. How do you teach Senior English if you've never read Shakespeare or Chaucer or Toni Morrison?
Truly enjoying Murderbot. Tonight's episode was the best so far!
May 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Truly enjoying Murderbot. Tonight's episode was the best so far!
I don't know what level you're working with, but Helen Vendler wrote some lovely reviews and analyses during her life. There are number of collections of her essays out there. This one from the Yale Review is about "The Waste Land." yalereview.org/article/vend...
Helen Vendler: "'The Waste Land' Revisited"
We know that The Waste Land is canonical because it has received the homage of parody.
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March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I don't know what level you're working with, but Helen Vendler wrote some lovely reviews and analyses during her life. There are number of collections of her essays out there. This one from the Yale Review is about "The Waste Land." yalereview.org/article/vend...
So happy for you!
a group of men in suits and ties are dancing in front of a building with the number 4 on it .
ALT: a group of men in suits and ties are dancing in front of a building with the number 4 on it .
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February 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So happy for you!
Oh I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you
February 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Oh I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you
Woke up to a advisory here. Temps dropping, rain to snow, maybe sleet and ice.
elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw
ALT: elmo from sesame street sitting at a table with a purple cup and straw
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February 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Woke up to a advisory here. Temps dropping, rain to snow, maybe sleet and ice.
I need to hear this this week
January 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I need to hear this this week
I’d love some cool erasers, a bookmark, and a couple books.
January 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’d love some cool erasers, a bookmark, and a couple books.
mine is fueled by hot tea and occasional naps ... :)
January 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
mine is fueled by hot tea and occasional naps ... :)
Amen. "What rough beast, it's hour come 'round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born."
January 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Amen. "What rough beast, it's hour come 'round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born."