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A new teacher in a new city, teaching English to high school juniors and seniors.
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Hamlet
What a piece of work is man: how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties; in form and moving how express and dmirable...how like a god- the beauty of the world... and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Act 2.2.267-272
Frankenstein
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
Teacher's Bookshelf
- Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
- Jonathan Kozol, Letters to a Young Teacher
- Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
What the Kids are Reading
- Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Alan Moore, Watchmen
- Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Beowulf
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