Catherine and Steve discuss how they are spending their summer "vacation" reflecting on the past year and preparing for the year upcoming.

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Catherine and Steve count down their favorite similes, metaphors, and images as they wrap up their discussion of The Great Gatsby.

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Catherine and Steve discuss the value of handwritten journaling, text annotation, and real, physical books in our increasingly digital age.

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Steve and Catherine continue their close reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with a deep-dive into Gatsby's parties and a discussion of "bonds" as the novel's guiding metaphor.

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Catherine and Steve barely scratch the surface of the imagery and figurative language in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

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Catherine and Steve discuss the enduring popularity of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel and how they introduce it to students.

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Dr. Catherine and Steve discuss the obstacles students face in reading literature successfully for effective study and some ways of navigating them.

The teachers reflect on how they got into teaching in the first place, the uneasy and problematic place of the first person in academic writing, and why students so often go for an overly formal and indirect voice in their work.

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Steve and Catherine discuss the writing process and why even the best students often resist it, as well as the benefits to both teachers and students of responding to student work as well as, or perhaps instead of, grading it.


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