by Thomas Hallock | Jan 26, 2016 | Road Course
Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us in “Self-Reliance” there is “creative reading as well as creative writing.” I ask students in survey classes to respond creatively to any one work we have read over the semester. I leave the medium open, except...
by Thomas Hallock | Sep 29, 2015 | Road Course
When the planes hit the towers, I thought, I was prepping a class. In my head we were reading Mary Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God, a 1682 account of a minister’s wife held captive during King Philip’s (or Metacom’s) War. But...
by Thomas Hallock | Aug 31, 2015 | Road Course
“Sometime in your life you may have to work some suck ass job.” Students in my Hawthorne class flip Spring Break, journey from Florida to Massachusetts. In ten feet of snow. They make this extraordinary video about The Scarlet Letter, “The Custom...