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Top Five Magazines for START
Since our school implemented a START program (Students and Teachers All Read Together), I’ve made a point of keeping magazines in the classroom for the students who have not brought their own reading...
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Top 5 Boston Bruins of My Time
My students enjoy the odd random digression, especially when it is hockey related. When I talk about hockey, I talk about the storied Boston Bruins. Well, because I was not yet born the last time the...
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Top 5 Stage Theatre for School Groups, 2009
After the 8th of December, school groups will have the opportunity of purchasing tickets for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 season. Naturally, our English Department will be planning a trip...
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Top Five Modern Dramatic Scripts for Grade 12
After only three years of teaching, I must admit, I’m already a little tired of Arthur Miller. At our school, the options for the modern dramatic script for our Grade 12 classes are The Crucible, and...
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Top 5 Literary Dinner Guests
When I read Edmund Morris’ memoir of Ronald Reagan a couple of years ago, I was struck by the dinner described in the introduction, hosted by the President and attended by political historians. How...
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Top 5 great moments of April 2009
My wife would probably say that April has been a wonderful month because the snow receded, she was able to clear off the flower gardens, and the green peas are actually up in the vegetable garden. As...
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It’s now been over a year since I had the pleasure of researching my hometown and writing a Wikipedia entry for it. I am a big fan of Wikipedia, and I do not believe that this electronic encyclopedia...
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Top 5 Careers (after teaching, of course)
Let’s face it: I have the best job in the world. Every year I get to spend a couple of weeks talking and thinking about Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, and of course Hamlet. However, when the...
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Top 5 Toronto Maple Leafs Goals
Without a television in my home, I’m usually a little behind-the-times when my students discuss TV shows and commercials, but watching hockey with my father-in-law the other night, I thoroughly enjoyed...
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Top 5 Canadian Storytellers
My wife recently complained that Canadian Literature has really become like the Emperor’s New Clothes — we expect a book to be brilliant and then overlook the fact that many of these novels fail to...
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