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Moby-Dick Meets the Day After Tomorrow: Eco-Disaster and Salvation in Craig Russell\u27s Fragment
Get PDFCraig Russell\u27s 2016 eco-thriller Fragment is a cautionary tale with nautical overtones.Like Herman Melville\u27s classic 19th-century American allegory Moby-Dick, the 214-page novel is encyclopedic in its presentation of scientific knowledge; unlike Moby-Dick, it is Wikipedic in its exposition of the potential effects of the ignorance of this knowledge. Though alarmist in its message, and matter-of-factly Naturalistic in its depiction of the deaths of tens of thousands of creatures both human and other, the book is ultimately Romantic as it presents Nature in simple language composed to improve society
Fingerprint Essay: Creative Exploration and Personal Narrative
Get PDFFingerprint Essays allows students to reflect on their own goals and dreams, and then display them in a way that is graphically creative and interesting
Dealing with Death in Life and Literature
Get PDFAs teachers of English, we cannot escape exposing our students to emotional triggers in the classroom. When my student\u27s father (a former classmate of mine) died by suicide, I found myself struggling with the ever-present emotional trigger of death and/or suicide in every major literary work scheduled for study that year. Death is unavoidable. Reading about death is also, apparently, unavoidable, but I was not convinced that violent death deserved so much of our literary attention, especially for this young man whose pain was raw and new
YA Books that Explore the Intersectionality of Race and Other Identities
Get PDFI hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this issue of Kansas English, you will find scholarly articles and practitioner pieces that will inform your work, as well as reflective and creative pieces that will help you see our profession from new perspectives
Language Awareness: The Linguistic Link Needed in English Education
Get PDFLanguage awareness has been largely overlooked by the American education system. This paper provides background knowledge needed to justify language awareness in classroom teaching. As educators we need to be more informed and think more systematically about teaching linguistic diversity in our classrooms
Stepping into the Margins: The Art of Teacher(less) Composing
Get PDFA junior high teacher designed a writing class around freewriting with a series of routines that emphasize writer agency and a culture of support. This article chronicles how one teacher learned to believe in the value of freewriting as the core curriculum of her writing class. The author presents practices that evolved from Peter Elbow\u27s conception of freewriting, writing-related artifacts that support the development of a writing identity, and what a semester of freewriting suggests about the role of the teacher in a writing class
Gobitis and Barnett: The Flag Salute and the Changing Interpretation of the Constitution
Get PDFIn Minersville School District vs Gobitis (1940) the United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 overturning lower court decisions barring states from implementing compulsory flag salutes. Three years later, the Supreme Court overturned that ruling with a 6 to 3 decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943). The cases were nearly identical and argued similarly but had different outcomes. How did the landscape of America change so drastically in a three-year period? First, the Supreme Court did not see a danger in the rise of nationalism in the United States or the social impact the ruling would bring. Second, the violence that followed Gobitis decision caused Jehovah\u27s Witnesses, a pacifist group that was uninvolved in politics, to become more persistent in utilizing the legal system and more vocal concerning persecution of its members. Finally, the Supreme Court was not the same. A change in justices and a shift in the focus of the Court from economic matters to personal liberties created a different political landscape, when West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnett reached the Court in 1943
Defending the Defender: Gerald Winrod and the Great Sedition Trial
Get PDFThe Rev. Dr. Gerald B. Winrod, an evangelist based in Wichita, Kansas, viewed himself and his followers as defenders. He came to call his media and ministry organization the Defenders of the Faith and its flagship magazine, The Defender. From Winrod\u27s view, the Defenders provided a moral bulwark against Darwinists, saloon keepers, women who wore revealing clothes, Catholics,sometimes, Jews, and especially Communists. At times, Winrod used very thin evidence to apply these labels to those he viewed as threats to American morality. For example, Winrod widely promoted his assertion that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was both a Jew and a Communist.
Pounds, Police, and Patriots: How Colonial Reactions to British Quartering Transformed from 1756-1774
Get PDFOf all the legislation which edged the thirteen colonies towards independence, none are as misrepresented as the Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774. From an early age, generations of American students are still taught that through the Quartering Acts, Britain forced colonials to take red-coated troops under their roofs, feed them, and care for them. This was not the case.1 In fact, the Quartering Act of 1765 was actually the first time England ever explicitly banned quartering in private homes.