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Kerouac’s long autobiographical oeuvre, which the author himself called “the legend of Duluoz,” did not make me want to become a teacher—or an English professor, or educator, or even a Beat writer. Rather, his books spurred me, as they did so many others, to travel across the United States, with eyes wide open to Something […]

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words. This is one of Rowling’s most common techniques as when in Book Five, 14 out of 38 chapter titles are alliterated. They range from such ordinary-sounding tidies as “The Ministry of Magic” and “Detention with Dolores,” to the more exotic sounding “The […]

Metonymy and synecdoche occur when people refer to something by using a word that is associated with whatever is being named. For example, Volde-mort’s name appropriately translates into “running from death,” while the name of Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic who is constantly obscuring the truth, might remind readers of the scrims that are […]

The Latin teacher, who taught in a room in a different corridor from where I taught, disappeared sometime in late November or early December. When I asked what had become of her, I learned that she had been fired. As a new teacher, I was personally concerned. This could happen to me. I eventually learned, […]

Attention to these factors required me to reconsider the notion that any teaching approach can be considered a “best practice” regardless of who is doing the practicing, where it’s being practiced, and how that practice is experienced by all involved. I had to reflect back, then, on the fact that under Hillocks’s tutelage and in […]