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- Cat in the Rain by Jenny Lee
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- Illuminated A & P by John Updike
- "i carry your heart" by e e cummings - An Illuminated Text in Flash
- "Indian Camp" - Illuminated text by Jesus Alonso
- Bloody Resolve: A Macbeth Illuminated Text by Elizabeth Mucha and Renee Leber
- "The End of Something" an Illuminated Text by Alex Nuttal
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- A Day in the Booth
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- 9th period - 2008 - Macbeth - the death of Lady Macbeth - A class discussion
- Beautiful sounds of Whitney Young by Sean (Yixion) Liu
- Joe Scotese and Whitney Young - Outside the Inferno
- "Song" & "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
- Jame Joyce's "Araby" a class discussion - April 16, 2010
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- Should students be routinely quizzed to determine if they have read the assigned text?
- Intersecting Paths - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Act III (Scotese Required Topic)
- Why I became (or want to become) a teacher
- Keeping to the Text
- Should English Teachers spend time talking about what an author meant?
- Rudeness in Class
- Is there a way to decrease the amount of cheating in our classrooms?
- Should teachers friend their current students on Facebook?
- Soldier's Home - General Discussion
- Share a Poem
I am a new member to this site and a new member to the whole teaching community. It has been a stressful and nerve racking process as a first year teacher. Ever since I have joined this site I feel like I have been more relaxed and been able to get more stuff done. I just realized how much i have been on here. I have been on here for most of the day simply reading forums and quotes and other topics and responding to a lot of them. You all have helped me a great deal and I look forward to a long relationship with this site. I just wanted to say that this thing is great and what I really needed.
My fiancé is a former student of yours (Nicole Machuca). She gushes when talking about your classes. This website came up at some point during my graduate work at DePaul. We viewed your student's work on "Cat In the Rain". It's truly inspiring to see text literalized before my eyes instead of just dancing around inside my head. I had a dream once in which some lengthy prose was written on the exterior of a large sphere...in retrospect, it could have been Beckett's "The Lost Ones". I really wonder how high school students would respond to Beckett's short fiction. I'm looking forward to testing these things out when I find my first teaching job for the fall. If things turn out like I hope, I'll be introducing myself in person at some point this summer.
Jason Sonnefeldt
I'm not sure how students would react - I've never taught Beckett - though I think I'd like to. That is so great that you are going to be teaching - where exactly?
This is such an interesting web site. A little overwhelming, I think I need to spend some time discovering all it has to offer. Being an English teacher who did not major in English, I feel at a disadvantage when it comes to literature. So, this should be of great help!
I agree it is both interesting and overwhelming. I see so many things that will work so perfectly with my students - especially the illustrated poems (or are they power points). I haven't discovered everything though. I know I'll find more interesting things to use.
This is a very interesting site with so many links and information. I need more time in my day to check it all out! I teach English in an integrated arts magnet school and I am especially struck by the illuminated text posts. This is such an interesting idea to pursue with my students. Thank you.
These images are fab! I recognize most of them, or at least I think I do. The prints from the Middle Ages are gorgeous. I have collected medieval manuscripts over the years, so your postings are a joy. What sort of image library do you have? Do your students offer their ideas? I have never seen any duplications. Wow. I love those old photos of our authors and poets. And the little cartoons are a delight. How do you have the time, Scotese, to do all that you do and ride your bike and photograph and teach the way you do? We applaud you.
I have time because of my family, students, and colleagues that support me. This website is a joy for me -- and thank you once again for your very kind words.