Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
New Books in Literary Studies
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How to Dissuade Youth From Doubting
The students are willing to take that example I just sketched out and learn from it. By the end of the freshman year most of them have become what we call john is you know they they're able to talk to each other without swerving off the road all the time into their own, you know, they're the thing that they want to talk about. And when they get to be juniors or seniors there's much more room to be able to connect the text to current events in an appropriate way. Yeah, not wanting to sort of challenge us all the time about why we reading this shouldn't we be talking about this. You know they came here trusting us.
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