Word with Bowne, or That Dude who Teaches English

The Teacher Dude reads this narrative essay for his English class.

A discussion between two Honors students, Megan and Maria, about the Broadway play and the changes made to suit Hollywood. 

What were we doing ‘hangin’ round’ in Colorado, anyway? The original essay can be be accessed here: https://medium.com/the-riff/michael-nesmith-saved-us-on-phantom-canyon-road-b5521bbb52f4?sk=f89829fa4e958d30b0697d5ea203bc67

This should have recorded video, but here is only the audio. If time allows, I will redo. 

Laura Silenzio '23 reads Helen Keller's famous essay for English III Honors.

Read by Faith Lee '23 for AP Lang and Comp. This essay first appeared in Newsweek in 1998. 

Read by ALEXA PROWISOR '23

Read by Rachel Boroda '23. This essay was published in the NYT Magazine in 1986. 

Read by Mahawa Bangoura '23. Mr. Raymond wrote this essay for the NY Times in 1976. He was a high school student in CT. 

Salvage Your Writing from The Wrath of Readers and Editors and Bowne

Varying the sentence structure will make your writing more engaging and less tiresome to read

Walter Bowne dissects his award-winning essay to reveal the art and craft of writing

Walter Bowne discusses the aspects of the research paper for fiction. Image by No Lubos Houska on by Pixabay

Here are the first set of directions for the nonfiction research paper

Never trust your inner navigator when traveling in the wilderness. 

Walter Bowne reads, coldly and with his mask on, Miller's introduction to The Crucible for context to the play

AP Scholars have the choice of a novel from the Golden Age of the Novel: the 19th Century or a book from contemporary nonfiction. After this project, we'll flip the list for the following month, and if you read a novel, you'll get a chose a nonfiction work. 

Walter Bowne talks about what makes the character of Jay Gatsby "great." Let's just say it's complicated. 

Walter Bowne lectures from the back of his Kia Sorento during lunch at school about Flannery O'Connor's famous short story. 

From the back of his Kia Sorento, Walter Bowne speaks about John Steinbeck's amazing story of an isolated woman in an isolated valley in December who so wants to compete in a world run by men. Who is the only one who sees her children, her art? A con man who symbolically "uses her" and her husband who only sees profit in her "art." Her husband cannot even recognize her "as a woman." Does he even k...

Audio version of Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums. Background music: Kevin MacLeod's "Sad Trio." Heartfelt Melodies 2006

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote this famous "gothic" short stort in 1892, two years before "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The stories from women writers offer insight into the plight and loneliness and isolation of women. Such isolation is often equated with madness. Let's take a quick look at this story and a short summary of Gilman's biography.

Walter Bowne reads from the back of his Sorento during Covid this tale of power and domination.  When is the use of force necessary? Was it necessary in this story? 

Let's take an intimate look at the characterization of Tom Buchanano: a vile, powerful, wealthy, hypocritical, and racist character by picking at the words that Fitzgerald uses to describe such a man who existed in numerous manifgestiations in the eugenics of the 1920s and 1930s, leading up to World War II and The Holocaust.  Eugenics: "the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human...

Walter Bowne analyzes the first few pages of The Great Gatsby where Fitzgerald establishes the credibility and morality of the teller of his tale.