Word with Bowne, or That Dude who Teaches English

William Bradford, John Smith, Ben Franklin, and Frederick Douglass: all famous for personal narratives; all written for a specific purpose and auidence; consider how the past impacts the present; what can we learn from these writers? Can we believe everything they write? Why not? What type of persona are they crafting? What is the danger of believing what may be fictionalized as being passed off a...

Walter Bowne reviews the following with examples from the short fiction unit. 1) Symbol 2) Foreshadowing 3) Conflict: Internal and External Conflict 4) Plot, linear narrative verses nolinear narrative narrative 5) Characterization 6) Setting 7) Theme: think about authorial intention. 8) Tone/ Mood

Walter Bowne describes the Art of the First-Person Literary Narrative. 

Must by: Arcadia by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3377-arcadia License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This essay is all about effective descrition. Use imagery when writing. Concrete details. Concrete nouns and active verbs. Metaphor. Simile. Analogy. 

Walter Bowne talks about how we often become the person we admire in the books we read and the stories we hear; as you write your own autobiography, a condensed bildungsroman, a novel of the development of a character, listen to this passage from David Copperfield; notice the long list of books, and what youg David felt about these books, and characters; he reveals much about himself, and no one r...

On a Tuesday morning, Walter Bowne reads, sometimes poorly, and with much haste, and a cold read at that, this amazing story for his hopefully attentive students. A better version may follow while recording from home studio. idk. Enjoy, I hope. 

Walter Bowne takes us to the train station on the line from Barcelona to Madrid to understand the conversation of this very troubled couple. 

Walter Bowne discusses power and submission and the educated class and the working class in this powerful short story that still resonates today. 

Walter Bowne gets his wife to stop what she was doing to help record this audio of Hemingway's short story. So what is the "it"? that the couple are talking about, anyway? 

Walter Bowne muses and considers the deeper meanings to this penetrating short story that Hemingway considered as "his favorite." 

Ethan is an AP Language and Composition scholar from Eastern High School. 

Arianna reads Kaufman's essay from Models for Writers for AP Language and Composition. 

Walter Bowne reads Zinsser's useful essay about how to "cut the fat" from writing. 

David wrote this essay when he was in high school. It appeared in the New York Times in 1976. He graduated from Curry College in 1981. This comes from the compilation of essays, "Models for Writers."

This episode comes from Gregory's autobiography "N****" that was published in 1964. 

What makes this humorous essay effective? How does he make us laugh? Consider the framing device he uses. Consider the effectiveness of the dialogue and the decsription. Can we all relate to early love stories? What is the main point of the essay? What's the takeaway? How does the "elavated diction" convey the author's personality and tone of the piece? 

Walter Bowne reads this great essay from Langston Hughes. Notice his use of dramatically short sentences and his effective use of ethos and pathos, and how much emotion we feel toward him, and the irony of the end. Also, take notice of extended metaphors like "sea of shouting" and "waves of rejoicing." The essay contains a ton of vivid description to make the reader or listening feel like we're in...

On Episode #1, Walter Bowne introduces himself and this crazy course called "How Much Stuff Can One English Scholar Do in Ten Months?" aka, English III Honors with That Dude Who Teaches English. Welcome, scholars. Hold on tight.  

Walter Bowne provides an argument to prove that independent reading is a major way we can "get smart" and learn to love to read again.  Episiode #2

Mr. Bowne introduces AP Lang and Comp to his incoming scholars. 

COVID-19 has moved the lecture hall to the North Patio of my house. More details soon to come about this deeply disturbing story. 

Walter Bowne discusses the 20 reasons why reading The Scarlet Letter is worth it. 

Dickinson has a passport to other worlds. Through her poetry, we can gain a deeper knowledge of this world and perhaps the next.