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Elisa is on page 26 of 180

First read this book in 2013 when I was a Junior in HS (and I logged my reading progress and talked about my frustrations with having to annotate)! Now I'm teaching it to Sophomores. Funny how time flies.

Chapter #1 reflection - it's dry and hard to get buy-in from students. But they also notice Nick's homoerotic comments immediately so now we're going to bring in some queer theory! Also - Tom's still an ass.

— Feb 23, 2020 06:34PM

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Elisa is on page 137 of 180

— Mar 04, 2024 04:26PM

Elisa is on page 127 of 180

— Feb 28, 2024 04:18PM

Elisa is on page 117 of 180

— Feb 27, 2024 07:22PM

Elisa is on page 75 of 180

Now, new book thoughts: Daisy and Tom are more similar to each other than we think, especially with how they're written. Tom's still an asshole and abusive, but his engagement with life otherwise ain't too different from Daisy. They're just different fonts.

— Feb 18, 2024 10:38AM

Elisa is on page 75 of 180

6th times the charm! 6th time reading, 5th time teaching it. Teaching reflections: I forgot to do some authorial context with one of my classes until after chapter #3 and it reminded me about the joys of reading something and then later digging into context and having that aha moment. It was nice to see kids make connections after having some of the story under their belt.

— Feb 18, 2024 10:37AM

Elisa is on page 110 of 180

— Mar 01, 2023 09:31PM

Elisa is on page 80 of 180

— Mar 10, 2022 10:42AM

Elisa is on page 18 of 180

I am once again teaching this again so here's to the yearly re-read.

— Feb 14, 2022 07:23PM

Elisa is on page 44 of 180

— Feb 29, 2020 07:40AM

Elisa is finished

Annotating is almost ruining this book/reading experience for me. It's actually pretty decent thus far.