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James

Michigan Grad Fostering Creativity in Readers and Writers

By many metrics, I grew up a reluctant reader—quite the origin story for an English teacher. Even though I consumed tons of media and was always hunched over a magazine or a newspaper, I never dug those readings for English class. Instead, I succeeded by tapping into my favorite fields and connecting to the material through a pathway. I drew on my love of professional wrestling to understand the power of foils, baseball to make sense of the shapes of narratives, and politics to grasp the ...

English


literature


reading


vocabulary


writing