Ashley Robinson
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This is my eleventh year as a teacher. I spent many years teaching in an inner-city school, as well as a year of substituting for middle school in a rural ISD. I currently teach in a rural high school on the outskirts of Austin. My certifications include Secondary English, ESL Supplemental, Social Studies Composite, Speech, Theatre, and P.E.
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Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Several of my PreAP students had the same kind of questions after we read through the novel this semester... the narrator is reliable in telling her story; the events of her narration may be... -
Answered a Question in Literature
I can think of many challenging books, though they were challenging for different reasons based upon the age at which I tried to tackle them. Reading Rushdie's The Satanic Verses as a sophomore in... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The only times I tend to read aloud are passages to friends or colleagues (in which cases I read verbatim) or to students (and I have previewed the text first). With students, if there are... -
Answered a Question in Le Morte d'Arthur
Consider his actions as good examples of his character (we often judge people by what they do as much as by what they say). At the start of Book 6, in chapter 1, Lancelot is not happy sitting idly... -
Answered a Question in Romanticism
The following are courtesy of my AP Senior English teacher, Andrelle E. McKinsey, more than a decado ago (and I still use them when I teach seniors for a nice reference)... Characteristics of the... -
Answered a Question in The Devil and Tom Walker
The names can imply a number of things: wealth is obtained in base manners; leaders in the community are corrupt; the Devil can destroy as easily as he gives (the trees can be cut/souls can... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In addition, you may note that Lady Capulet, though rebuking her husband for his temper, does nothing after Lord Capulet tells Juliet that she can "hang, beg, starve, die in the streets" (III.v) if...