Marin Homework Coach articles about literature.
Today, we watched a video lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , The dangers of a single story. In her lecture, she explains what how saw other people when she was a young girl in Nigeria. She then explained how she felt about herself and others when she moved to the United States. After that, she explains […]
One of my students who is a freshman at Raoul Wallenberg High School is reading Animal Farm in her English class. Today, we read the first few pages of the book together. By reading out loud, I was able to identify the words in the text that she was not familiar with. Towards the end […]
This week, I’m helping a student read Book VII of the Republic. It was written by Plato in 360 B.C.E.. We are reading the translation by Benjamin Jowett. It is available online at the Internet Classics Archive. My student’s project, for his Global Studies class at San Dominico School, is to create a video in […]