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If I even utter A followed by I there is a collective shudder, and then piercing stares from my brightest students. They once laughed about this; now it’s like The Hunger Games rebellion.
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If I even utter A followed by I there is a collective shudder, and then piercing stares from my brightest students. They once laughed about this; now it’s like The Hunger Games rebellion.
Bong Joon, you can reach me here. I’m a HS ELA teacher.
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Bong Joon, you can reach me here. I’m a HS ELA teacher.
Lincoln in the Bardo! C’mon people, you forgot this masterpiece.
Also agree with Yall about Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Beloved.
Also agree with Yall about Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Beloved.
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Lincoln in the Bardo! C’mon people, you forgot this masterpiece.
Also agree with Yall about Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Beloved.
Also agree with Yall about Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Beloved.
It’s similar to when students learn to write for a test- in NY the Regents, or for AP students, the AP test. It’s one kind of jump-through-the-hoop writing that isn’t writing at all. There’s no process, no investment, no “writing from plenty” to quote my mentor, James Moffett.
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It’s similar to when students learn to write for a test- in NY the Regents, or for AP students, the AP test. It’s one kind of jump-through-the-hoop writing that isn’t writing at all. There’s no process, no investment, no “writing from plenty” to quote my mentor, James Moffett.
Always ends with a sigh. NCTE, you disappoint. Essay writing, sure. Lots of other kinds of writing to explore. But “book reading”?! I hope the ghost of Louise Rosenblatt haunts you people.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Always ends with a sigh. NCTE, you disappoint. Essay writing, sure. Lots of other kinds of writing to explore. But “book reading”?! I hope the ghost of Louise Rosenblatt haunts you people.
Hi Fred. My students aren’t underground. If I even utter A followed by I there is a collective shudder, and then piercing stares from my brightest students. They once laughed about this; now it’s like The Hunger Games rebellion.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hi Fred. My students aren’t underground. If I even utter A followed by I there is a collective shudder, and then piercing stares from my brightest students. They once laughed about this; now it’s like The Hunger Games rebellion.
But yes, many years ago some NWP sites were offering a literature summer institute- when there was more funding for NWP.
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
But yes, many years ago some NWP sites were offering a literature summer institute- when there was more funding for NWP.
Been offering faculty at my small HS a school wide book club- a new book each year to study with the students- this year- Frankenstein.
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Been offering faculty at my small HS a school wide book club- a new book each year to study with the students- this year- Frankenstein.
Save us ten hours of work per week. They’re like pharmaceutical reps, bringing bagels and pizza (I’m in New York) to woo us into complicity. Is AI going to make me a better educator? What about my colleagues, who want to know where the next buffet is being held?
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Save us ten hours of work per week. They’re like pharmaceutical reps, bringing bagels and pizza (I’m in New York) to woo us into complicity. Is AI going to make me a better educator? What about my colleagues, who want to know where the next buffet is being held?
Professor, I’ve been following you for the past year; while I appreciate the lighthearted fun you’re having, I need you to understand what’s happening to us in the K-12 world. Salespeople from AI companies are bringing trays of food to conferences, preying on teachers, promising that AI will…
December 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Professor, I’ve been following you for the past year; while I appreciate the lighthearted fun you’re having, I need you to understand what’s happening to us in the K-12 world. Salespeople from AI companies are bringing trays of food to conferences, preying on teachers, promising that AI will…
I’m not sure I understand. Why does AI change this debated topic?
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’m not sure I understand. Why does AI change this debated topic?
If I move to Florida I’ll try to remember that I could get in trouble for having an unacceptable book in my classroom
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If I move to Florida I’ll try to remember that I could get in trouble for having an unacceptable book in my classroom
The purpose of my classroom library is to encourage independent reading. Most of the selections in the purchasable library are literary works I’d teach to the whole class. My library has single copies by authors like John Green Philip Pullman & Jenny Han.
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The purpose of my classroom library is to encourage independent reading. Most of the selections in the purchasable library are literary works I’d teach to the whole class. My library has single copies by authors like John Green Philip Pullman & Jenny Han.
Yes! and thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Yes! and thank you!
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” T Stoppard- R and G are Dead, also beautiful.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” T Stoppard- R and G are Dead, also beautiful.
Currently read The Night Watchman by Erdrich with my 11th graders.
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Currently read The Night Watchman by Erdrich with my 11th graders.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Well that one had me screaming at the ceiling.
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Well that one had me screaming at the ceiling.
Neither are novels; so I’m wondering if that’s the way the school named those books?
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Neither are novels; so I’m wondering if that’s the way the school named those books?
Perhaps one reason to require reading is so that great literature becomes part of the collective consciousness, collective memory. Did you see the NYT piece where writers remembered the first time they read CS Lewis? Does it matter that readers have shared ideas, language shaping their minds?
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Perhaps one reason to require reading is so that great literature becomes part of the collective consciousness, collective memory. Did you see the NYT piece where writers remembered the first time they read CS Lewis? Does it matter that readers have shared ideas, language shaping their minds?
In today’s Times- “We have to acquire and develop our linguistic capacities through immersive practice with other human beings.”
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In today’s Times- “We have to acquire and develop our linguistic capacities through immersive practice with other human beings.”