thewritingteacher
thewritingteacher
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August 5, 2009
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High School - 12th Grade
English / Literature / Writing
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Biography
I have been a teacher since 1990, specializing in critical thinking and writing through literature.
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Answered a Question in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
To anyone living in the 21st century, Anne Frank's naivete and optimism borders on...
Answered a Question in Literature
Excellent question and an interesting comparison. Both Tom and Gatsby clung...
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Answered a Question in Laura Ingalls Wilder
The First Four Years is the final (and unfinished) book in the "Little House"...
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Answered a Question in The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving made sure that his protagonist in this tale was a miserable...
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Answered a Question in Life of Pi
This is a terrific question. Pi has to use everything he knows and believes in...
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Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
Jerry Cruncher's "business stock" is a stool made up of a broken chair. Every day...
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Answered a Question in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosecrantz and Guildenstern come into the play seemingly from nowhere. While they...
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
Part of Chaucer's genius lay in the fact that he was a great observer of society....
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
Both societies treat Gulliver as a curiosity at first. The Lilliputians "imprison"...
Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
Monsieur and Madame Defarge are Parisians, working for the Revolution. They have a...
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Clerk himself is a quiet man, apparently faithful to his own calling, as...
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Answered a Question in Poem of the Cid
The Poem of the Cid is a fabulous picture of life and politics of the Spanish...
Answered a Question in Beowulf
The culture of the time was a feudal system, and Beowulf was born into the...
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Answered a Question in The Raven
The lovesick and heartbroken poet asks (both directly and indirectly) a number of...
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Answered a Question in El Cid
Cantar de Mio Cid is the definitive work of the Spanish epic and the Spanish epic...
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