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...questions like “What are the relations among author, reader, text, and the circumstances in which the text is produced?” to quote the Courses of Instruction. Yet the number of cross-listed departmental courses remains agonizingly low. We are stumped as to why English 151, “The 19th Century Novel,” is somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th Century Novel,” is not. Bizarrely, the Core continues to insist that its presentation of various “approaches to learning?...
...nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the 10th grade English language arts exam, while 30 percent of white students scored in this range. Only seven percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the mathematics exam, while 42 percent of white students did. School Committee member Nancy Walser, who proposed the series of public forums, said that...
...chapters are named after famous books, such as “A Moveable Feast” and “Metamorphosis.” Besides flagging important themes for the reader, the titles make up a required reading list more expansive than an average English class. Pessl transforms nouns to verbs (“triple-lutzed”, “couch potatoed”), recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones...
...straightforwardly banal inspirational? Which is not to say that a song can't also be what it makes fun of - that a faux-inspirational song can't be inspirational and incorrigibly, addictively, sing-alongable. Remember that "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" became the anthem for English football clubs. That's the lovely thing about parody: nothing is so silly that someone won't take it seriously...
...English concentrator in Dunster House. Her column “Identity Politics” will appear on alternate Wednesdays and will aim to examine the ways in which the many facets of people’s identities can color situations, cause conflict, and occasionally contradict each other...