Some books are meant to be read. These are meant to be used. You can learn a lot about nature in the classroom—reading, researching, and doing experiments. But there are some things you can only pick up out there in the midst of the outdoors, and the National Audubon Society … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Moby Dick
There's a stereotypical discussion that US literary scholars like to have about what book is the Great American Novel—the book that epitomizes this country's literary achievements. Many authors have a claim to the title—including the late Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Ralph … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Beowulf
Sometime between 975 and 1025 a.d., an unknown poet composed one of the most famous, most influential poems in English history: Beowulf. … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Hidden Figures
When most people think about going to space, they think about astronauts. That makes sense, given that astronauts are the ones who go to space. But before they can float in the great nothingness or walk on the moon, there is a huge team of people who have extremely difficult work … [Read more...]
Classic Reconsidered: Ways of Seeing
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...]
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