Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Donate Old Watches for a Great Cause!
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Thanks to the efforts of Senior Editor Paul Moliken, Prestwick House is partnering with a unique non-profit charity called Kids Time . ...
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Why Read the Classics?
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by Rachel Carey Robinson Crusoe and Shakespeare and Beowulf … cue the groans. Getting high school students excited to read the Classics ...
Friday, June 21, 2013
Does it Matter Whether You Read Print or Digital?
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by Derek Spencer Last Friday I wrote a little commentary about a Mind/Shift post extolling the virtues of "deep reading" and ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Top 5 Life Lessons from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
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by Rachel Carey I know what a lot of students probably think when Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is assigned in class: W...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Making of "The Red Badge of Courage" Literary Touchstone Classics Cover
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by Chris Koniencki Hopefully, you have been paying attention to some of our earlier PH Blogs, giving our friends an inside look int...
Friday, June 14, 2013
On "Deep Reading" and Electronic Devices
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by Derek Spencer I think we can all agree that the practice of "deep reading" — the kind of reading that takes time, engages th...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
My Argument *for* the Thesis Burger
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by Rachel Carey I will never forget the day during eighth grade when my English teacher brought a grill to class. She was going to cook...
Monday, June 10, 2013
The Great Gatsby film isn't great, but it isn't terrible either
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by Derek Spencer I saw the most recent film adaptation of The Great Gatsby not too long ago. Some critics have savaged it, but I didn...
Friday, June 7, 2013
The Most Useful Criticism I Ever Received
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by Rachel Carey Criticism. The mention of the word makes all of us shiver with fear (you don’t have to deny it) as waves of low self-...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The 5 Best (and Sometimes Hard to Pronounce) Rhetorical Devices for Winning Arguments
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by Rachel Carey Who here can say that they don’t enjoy (probably a little too much) winning an argument? It doesn’t matter what the argu...
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