Tag: literature
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Dangerous Liaisons
I taught the novel Dangerous Liaisons for many years with great success, and I watched the movie version with my undergrads in class. In their final essays, they told me, in ingenious ways, why the book’s topic, cruelty, had to be well written with care, and how setting the novel in a different time period worked…
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TEACHING POETRY

My students are SO bright! They noticed and identified every subversive, poetic image in these lyrics by Sly & The Family Stone. That’s why teaching poetry is so important. I hand out a packet of poems and lyrics, and my students have a full day or two to mark it up, circle, and underline whatever…