Category Archives: Close Reading
Week Five: Sweet Bard of Youth
“Sweet Bard of Youth”, an article by David Kamp, appeared in Vanity Fair in 2010, following John Hughes sudden death in 2009. Th [...]
Week Four – Where Were You in ’62?
Read and annotate the following articles. Scan the results and add to your personal blog. American Graffiti Read the Introduction and Chapte [...]
Week Four – California, New York and the London Docks
Gidget, West Side Story, and To Sir With Love arise during a period of turmoil, when old ways and grand narratives about gender, race and cl [...]
Week Six – Catcher in the Rye, Close Reading of Ch1
By now, you should have completed a (very) close reading of the opening chapter of the novel. The chapter does a lot of ‘heavy lifting [...]
