February 2012
3 posts
10 lines to love: Kate Boo
At the sentence level alone, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo’s unsettlingly gorgeous epic about life in a Mumbai slum, already distinguishes itself as a teaching resource. And these lines are just from the prologue, people!
“He had deep-set eyes and sunken cheeks, a body work-hunched and wiry—the type that claimed less than its fair share of space when threading through...
Coming soon: Annotation Tuesday!, the Zanesville...
It’s impossible to talk about one Zanesville narrative without examining all three, so stay tuned for the full line-by-line autopsy + Q&As with all three of these fellas:
18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars,
2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque,
and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
By Chris Heath
GQ
March 2012
A little before five o’clock on the evening of October 18, 2011, as the day...
The narrative rat
I never can resist using this one in class as an example of some basics:
S.F. kids spend recess toasting the best rat who ever lived Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer
November 23, 2002
They raised their grape juice cups at Lakeshore Elementary School in memory of Jupiter the rat.
“He was a great rat,” said fourth-grade teacher Rich Mertes. “Possibly the greatest rat...