Tag: English Literature
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Novels – Helping with International Connections
Today my family and I were eating lunch at a restaurant. Seated next to us (in very close proximity) was a table full of Japanese people who were all speaking in their native tongue. I asked my nine-year-old to scoot over next to them to make more room for her Dad. She looked at me…
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He’s nothing but an Albatross: Using the concept of an inside joke to understand allusion in English literature
My daughter just tried out for her school’s third and fourth grade musical. She decided to sing Forget About the Boy from Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), you can hear a sample here (thank you to actorguy 2006 for posting this youtube video of Sutton Foster performing Forget About The Boy from the 2002 Tony Awards) – (It’s…
Working on it! 