Learn to cook, aim carefully when you pee and more life lessons that are just for boys
For all my students who researched gun control policies
Ninety years may have passed since the publication of the Great Gatsby, and many things have changed in American society since then. But there is one thing that certainly has not changed—an immutable truth about mankind: humans have a materialistic greed that is utterly insatiable.
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Last paragraph of John’s response is beauty!
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
—Ray Bradbury (via larmoyante)
I decided to write my blog as I read, so if it seems kind of random, that’s because it is random, oh well.
Nick’s father seems wise I like this quote: “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve…
I really like how Sydney blogged as she read. This is an authentic response/close read. If you’re reading Gatsby on an ipad or kindle, writing a response should be as easy as copying and pasting notes to Tumblr.
In her article about transgender teens in the magazine this week, Margaret Talbot quotes Annette Bening and Warren Beatty’s son Stephen calling himself, among other things, a “nerd fighter.” It might escape the average reader’s notice that this term is more than the sum of its parts. In the teen-age population, “nerdfighter” (as a compound word) has a very specific meaning and etymology. Primarily, it identifies the teen-ager in question as a follower of John Green…
Michelle Dean on John Green and the nerdfighters: http://nyr.kr/XJiBAo
John Green!! In the New Yorker!
