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...]
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...]
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