Main menu

Skip to content
  • English A
  • AP Literature
  • Meet Bernie
  • Contact
  • Presentations
    • Class Blogs: Giving Students a Public Voice
    • Hearing/Producing/Performing Oral History
    • The Future is Now: Science Fiction As Allegory
    • Have You Heard a Good Story Lately? Oral Tradition in America
CriticsandBuilders.com
TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR CULTURE
See More

Presentations

Hearing/Producing/Performing Oral History
-CASE Conference 2015: The Storyteller (February 2015)

 Constructing a Conversation on Race
-Oak Park River Forest High School: Best Practices (November 2014)

 

 

Class Schedule 2025-2026

RSS English A: Our Stories

  • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.

RSS American Lit: True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
  • Defiance of Female Stereotypes in “The Big Bang Theory”
  • Feminism Has Seen Stranger Things
  • Going Inside of "Inside Amy Schumer"
  • Gone Girl Feminist Critique
  • Batman And Gender Norms, A Love Story
The top image is the amazing art of Dave Gibbons from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987): Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world. He takes his cultural criticism and his apocalyptic morality a bit too far -- okay, way too far! -- but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

Blog at WordPress.com.

    • CriticsandBuilders.com
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • Manage subscriptions