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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

  • A Return to a World Under Attack
  • Anya’s Ghost By: Vera Brosgol
  • Life Means Everything
  • Addicted to the Rush
  • The Folk of the Air
  • Living a Life of War is Living a Life Without Freedom
  • My Review of Kanan: The Last Padawan
  • The Endless Loop
  • Pills
  • A Great Sci-fi Book

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • How King Lear + Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead changed my thoughts on Literature
  • WOW Zendaya “ALL FOR US” + Emily Dickinson “THERE’S BEEN A DEATH AT THE OPPOSITE HOUSE”
  • “Here Comes the Sun” to “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”
  • “Searching” Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Analysis with “Noiseless, Patient Spider”
  • Intoxication – A Romantic Analysis
  • How Jealousy Ruins Self Image
  • Drunk on Sunshine
  • Romantic Romanticism–“For Three Years I Dreamed of You”
  • A Romantic Analysis of “The Otter”
  • “Show Yourself”- Idina Menzel and Evan Rachel Wood-Frozen II

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? :)

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