https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." Those are the first words in the book version of John Berger's Ways of Seeing. But before it was a book, Ways of Seeing was an instructional … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens is one of those authors that most students fear. I know I did. His books just seemed so...boring. But there's a reason he's the classic English author (behind Shakespeare): his books captured what life was like for ordinary people during the 1800s. … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Fahrenheit 451
When he was writing Fahrenheit 451 in the early 1950s, Ray Bradbury was trying to invent a dystopian world where learning and free thought were threatened. He was worried about censorship, and about the way new mass media—like television and movies—were changing society. So he … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: The House on Mango Street
We're looking at what makes you, you this month, and questions of identity are always questions about stories. Whose story gets told? How do you capture the messy, complicated nature of identity? What impact do race, gender, culture, and poverty have? That's why we're … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Jurassic Park
One surefire way to make fossils exciting are to make them come to life—literally! Perhaps that's why Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park has become one of the hallmarks of American culture over the past thirty years. … [Read more...]
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