By Kelly Keene "You get summers off," people tell me whenever I mention the challenges of teaching. They're right, we only get paid ten months out of the year. But what they don't realize is that even though teachers don't get paid for those two months, we somehow are still expected to work through them. … Continue reading A Teacher’s Summer Break
Teaching English
Paradox
by Kelly Keene I love to think about paradoxes, and collect oxymorons on a list in my phone. We get to consider the power of the paradox when we read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with the 12th graders, and I like to point out how oxymoronic language can often que readers into complex texts … Continue reading Paradox