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An important concept I picked up from reading what Alsup and Bush have to say about technology in the classroom is that we must always be critical of our using technology and ensure there is a reason for it.  It is certainly something different and new for students to work with, but then again so […]

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Before my practicum experience began a week ago, I was quite content to read along in the professional books I’ve studied and read that good, solid, well-planned lessons are the best way to avoid classroom misbehavior. Having never faced a classroom full of adolescents, this seemed to make sense to me and that was […]

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Marxism, and to a lesser extent Feminist theory, doesn’t fly too well with most people in the United States in my experience. Decades of cold war and government propaganda have made it difficult to separate Marxism the theory from Marxist or communist forms of political dictatorship. What results from this unstable cocktail of […]

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The more I read Rex Gibson’s work about teaching Shakespeare, the more I reconsider the fear that my peers and I relate about teaching the Bard.  It seems that what Gibson relates is an interesting, vivid, and engaging way of approaching Shakespeare, one that is fundamentally different than the experiences I had with Bill S. […]

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Before college, my idea of literary theory was about as fully realized as my idea of quantum theory. That is, I don’t think I ever did anything remotely close to literary theory analysis in my high school courses. This is troubling to me because I attribute a great deal of my motivation to […]

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Hello. You have stumbled upon my very first educational blog. I am hoping that I can mold this blog into a place where, as a Master’s student of English Education, I can peg down certain ideas, methodologies, experiences, and theories into something that speaks to a greater purpose: my growth and development as […]

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