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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Course musings
Introduction In looking back over the year in senior English, I start to think about the ideas that tie the two courses together. The main one is philosophy, of course. For after all, except for guilty pleasure or as a … Continue reading
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Theodicy redux
Prompted by a conversation with Joey and Jared and by seeing Jared’s draft notes of his synthesis paper, I decided to write, or at least to sketch out, one of my own. I haven’t written a long paper since the … Continue reading
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What is an American (part 2)
There are two continents and a land bridge between them that are generally considered “the Americas,” so it understandably annoys a significant portion of the Western Hemisphere when the people of the USA consider and refer to themselves as “Americans.” … Continue reading
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What is an American?
The bottom-line reason for studying American literature in 11th grade at St. John’s is that there is currently no other choice. So, perhaps the better question to ask then is why there should be no choice. But that is, as … Continue reading
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American Literature: 4 Questions
I am probably going to be teaching a section of American Literature next year, which has caused me to ponder what I should teach and why. For years, various people have urged that an American Studies course, wherein American history … Continue reading
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Natural philosophy
I spent about forty minutes today with a fourth grader, whom I was told wanted to talk to someone about some questions he had about philosophy. Or maybe I misunderstood what we were going to be visiting about. But anyway, … Continue reading
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English 2012
A couple of years ago, I had my senior English class spend two days thinking about what “English 2012” should look like at St. John’s. The idea was to start from scratch (not based on adapting a current course) but … Continue reading
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