Tag Archives: "Theme for English B"

Moby Dick and The Whale (2022 Movie Version)

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2022

In the 2022 film “The Whale,” and English professor searching for authenticity finds it in a childhood essay on “Moby Dick.”

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I Am a Part of You and You of Me

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2020

Langston Hughes provides an important and humane voice at this point in time.

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How to Write a “True” Essay about Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: December 9, 2010

When I wasn’t teaching class yesterday, I was continuing my marathon essay-grading session. I took a break to write today’s post, however, and used a well-known poem by Langston Hughes to reflect on what I was asking my students to do. In “Theme for English B,” the only black student in a college composition course […]

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