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Borrowing Intelligence

Posted in Teaching, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I took my students to the library to do research the other day. Now I know most of my students do not go to the library on a regular basis, I did however assume that they were all in a library at some point or another in their life…or at least know and understand what [...]

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THE JEWISH NOVEL: a story of intrigue and interstate

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 25, 2008 | 19 Comments »

 
            Welcome to the Jewish novel. This is where all the girls are perfect aidel Bais Yaakov girls, heaven forbid they forget to make a bracha (and it’s not explicitly written in the book every time they eat something, because how else would you know if they made a bracha.) All the boys shteig, and [...]

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A Waste in Time

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I always thought I was somehow an inadequate English teacher because I refused to read certain works of classic literature. The reason I refuse to read these books are usually due to negative exposure to them when I was younger. I hate reading books that are forced on me, books that get too good a [...]

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