I started a unit on Love and Relationships in my AP Lit class today. We discussed everything from what it means to love someone, what it means to love yourself and how you show love to others to the four kinds of love defined by Greeks to Capellanus’s rules for courtly love to #metoo and…
Drop everything and go read this post at Risha Mullins’s blog. It is amazing to me that with the evidence in their hands that what Mullins was doing was working, the principal and superintendent””and even department members””railroaded Mullins into quitting. She is a brave person, and I admire her grace under fire. If I were…
Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak has recently been the focus of a new attack by Wesley Scroggins, associate professor of management at Missouri State University. He describes the novel as “soft pornography” and apparently levied a formal challenge against this book in addition to Slaughterhouse Five, which he also deems inappropriate because of its language…
