literature – El Estoque

English teachers come together to promote equity in classrooms

October 21, 2019

English teachers of FUHSD attend sessions in order to learn how to help their students in a way that benefits them

Tags: clarke, conference, david, English, equity, greg, justice, literature, merrick, offering, social justice, teachers

Booked up

Claire Wen and Oishee Misra

October 15, 2018

iterature remains the only course at MVHS that students must take for all four years of high school. For some, it’s an enjoyable experience, while for others, it does nothing but elicit groans of distaste. Whether the novel is about a tragic love story (‘Romeo and Juliet’), the crumbling socie...

Tags: books, David Clarke, Kavya Patel, literature, MVHS, Opinion, Roya Ahmadi

Book Club: English teacher Hannah Gould shares her liking for Russian literature

Daniel Lin

April 22, 2016

mong the vast selection of book genres — from historical fiction to technical reports — English Literature teacher Hannah Gould has a favorite: Russian literature. After taking two Russian literature classes in college, she developed a fondness of Russian writing and its authors. Fyodor Dostoevsk...

Tags: book, Book Club, English, Gould, literature, reading, Russian

Literature teachers discuss popular fiction books

Amita Mahajan

December 17, 2015

While most students picture their Literature teachers solely spending time reading classic literary fiction and revising essays, many teachers have read popular books of the 21st century. Below are three Literature teachers’ opinions and critiques on young adult series such as Harry Potter, The Hunge...

Tags: books, literature, popular fiction, teachers

Unifying freshman Literature curriculum

Amita Mahajan

October 26, 2015

any high school students sit through classes, learning little to none of the skills needed to continue on to higher level courses. However, over the past few years the English Department has focused on decreasing this negative occurrence through “horizontal alignment” of the curriculum in freshman l...

Tags: Freshman, Horizontal Alignment, literature, Skillset, sophomores, Unify

Religion and tradition: Students and teachers discuss biblical allusions in literary courses

Miloni Vora

October 23, 2015

Updated: Nov. 20: A previous version of the story that appeared on Oct 23 excluded some information mentioned by literature teacher Scott Catrette. The information has been added. As high schoolers, all students have been exposed to references from the Bible in each of their literature classes at...

Tags: Biblical Allusions, culture, literature

La Pluma releases its first issue of the year

Aditi Desai

December 12, 2014

“Her knees touched the tip of her nose. Her voice repelled the idea of returning to defend her inability to do something other could. They were right. She was different and she couldn’t do what they could.” This is a part of a short story called Of Mean and Metal Bullies, published by La Pluma ...

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