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Pre-reading Reyna Grande's The Distance Between Us: Tossing Words and Lines
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Pre-reading Reyna Grande's The Distance Between Us: Tossing Words and Lines

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Lesson of the Month Do you want to make reading active, collaborative, and daring? Do you want to teach in a way that sets students on fire with excitement about literature and learning? Do you want to get out of…

5 Soliloquies to Teach in This Month of Resolutions
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5 Soliloquies to Teach in This Month of Resolutions

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Happy New Year, colleagues! This time of year, there’s a tendency to look inward. We reflect. We resolve. And, if you’re anything like me, you wrestle with your resolutions, too. (Image: Kate Ryan) What better time to take a close…

Seeing Double in the Romeo and Juliet Prologue
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Seeing Double in the Romeo and Juliet Prologue

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William Fox presents Theda Bara in William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet, 1916. Folger Shakespeare Library. By Julia Perlowski If the use of Shakespeare’s early modern English is under attack in some “regular” and “honors” English classrooms, just think about…