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The topic of immigration reform has proven to be a heated debate among the two parties in Congress and in the minds of our nation. The...

I found the good, old PowerPoint to be very helpful in creating a complete and comprehensive oral presentation. I felt it helped me to...

After reading “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, I would start by asking my students about Yeats title choice for the poem. I...

“Checking Out" by Chimamanrda Ngozi Adichie highlights the plight of the undocumented immigrant. The character of Roy Snell portrays the...

For my first essay I chose Silvia Plath’s “Daddy” to argue that her use of imagery and metaphors depicted with much clarity the state in...

Definitely rhythm and rhyme are poetic terms that can be identified in “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. I think this poem would be fun to teach...

To date, more often than not, I find it to be challenging understanding poems. It’s almost like a whole different literary world. In...

The instant I tell people what my major is, they all ask me the exact same question, "do you want to be an English teacher?" Eventually I...