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Lenore was always a bad idea as a name.

maybe the covey should stop naming their kids after doomed ballads. why not name them roxanne or rosemary. goddamn

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Snow crashing out to at least two tributes of district 12, makes me wonder how often he has done that since becoming president

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President Snow: So petty he started a fight with a species of bird.

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*Me sighing as I write up a challenged materials complaint in the library*

“and the woman explained that her complaint was regarding the fact that the book was a picture book and contained two girls kissing, and so she wanted it removed from the shelves because it was inappropriate for school children”

Ma’am, Ma’am, what in the holy homophobia.

This is a high school library, and that is a mermaid in a graphic novel.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Do I think that Trump only knows the names of the countries that he learned from the start of the Animaniacs world song?

Maybe.

Do I think it’s a coincidence that the song goes: United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama…

Not at all.

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Must a show be “good”? Is it not enough to be an alternative history that asks “what if instead of the Catholic-Protestant schism causing complications in Tudor England, it’s Animorphs?” that’s super horny on main, has the vibe of A Knight’s Tale, surprisingly pretty accurate historical costumes (with a few notable exceptions), and a bunch of British character actors acting absolutely wild?

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I’m not even close to straight. But My Lady Jane had one of the best slow burn romances outside of a book I have ever seen.

Also that omniscient forth wall breaking narrator was *chefs kiss*

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I’m just walkin’

HOLY SHIT word-nerds! I just - - mind blown - - ok, here’s a Thing

The words plantigrade and digitigrade are not necessarily common knowledge, but “Walks on the heel like a human or a bear” and “Walks on the toes like a dog or cat” are at least somewhat known.

 I had never run into the word unguligrade until fairly recently, and thought it was a delightful addition to my favorite stash of scienc-y words.

Anyway, grade is the root word for walking. So. With that in mind. What is a tardigrade?

Jeez, little water bear, somebody looked at you and said, “Yeah that sure is a slow walker. Steppin’ slow. Will get there eventually.”

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“yikes” is the word equivalent of quickly turning away from a messy situation while raising your eyebrows and taking a sip of your drink

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I saw a Tik-Tok of someone explaining that they recently had the realisation that Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter was actually not about caffeine keeping someone awake at nights. Good for them. But, people were still arguing about it in the comments.

1. Media Literacy is dead

2. Do I need to analyse every-single pop song and explain the figurative meanings with my whiteboard?

(This does not apply to the Taylor Swift fans, you guys go off on your deep dives of potential intertextuality)

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Always a fun addition to teaching my seniors.

The discussion question is. Would he have approved of the movie adaptation and why?

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App idea: Tinder, but for finding compatible therapists in your area.

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Teacher Librarian here. What do the students want. (If anyone under 20 still exists on here).

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How to increase the sophistication of your textual analysis for English Essays.

Basic analysis will often read as a recount with some textual examples that are mainly generic references rather than quotes.

For example “In Macbeth as he goes mad things begin to spiral out of his control and he sees a dagger.”

Taking it a step further requires specific examples and telling your teacher why they care about them.

E.g. Macbeth’s madness is highlighted through the repeated scenes where he is unable to distinguish reality from fiction as he states “Is this a dagger that I see before me” he questions his sanity, foreshadowing the eventual downfall from his madness and involvement with the supernatural.

Taking it a step further requires you to treat the text as something that the author has created purposely, rather than characters acting randomly on a rampage.

E.g Shakespeare’s depiction of Macbeths madness begins with his vision of the dagger and his questioning of whether “Is this a dagger that I see before me”, by introducing this element to the scene Shakespeare foreshadows the eventual downfall of Macbeth from his madness as a result of his involvement with the supernatural.

To add more depth to your analysis at a HSC level, particularly in advanced English you should also incorporate author and reader context.

Shakespeare’s depiction of Macbeth’s growing madness in seeing “a dagger before me” symbolises the ethical and spiritual implications of his decision to commit the mortal sin of murder, foreshadowing to the Elizabethan audience his inevitable downfall for going against not only the chain of being, but also god, through his involvement with the supernatural. To a modern audience this element still allowed the realisation of his actions, instead positioning the hallucinations as a didactic reminder of his unethical decisions to seek power.

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Big brain your textual analysis in English class. The characters do not just run amuck in the story. The author uses them for a purpose to convey meaning to the responder.