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This week's Chronicle of Higher Ed has a beautiful essay on teaching English to high school students, the zenith of which concerns _Mrs Dalloway_. The article is "What my Ph. D. Taught Me," by Jessica Levenstein, an English teacher at Horace Mann, and the link is <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/A-Literature-PhD-Goes-to/138247/">http://chronicle.com/article/A-Literature-PhD-Goes-to/138247/</a>. </p>
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"Every now and then, in the classroom, there are transcendent moments that surpass my own great expectations, formed in the classrooms of my astounding professors. Last spring, as we finished discussing Clarissa Dalloway's June day, we read aloud Clarissa's reaction to the news of Septimus's suicide: "A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter."</p>
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"The room was quiet for a moment, as my students considered what that "thing" might be for Clarissa, and what it might be for them. Finally, an 11th-grade girl at the far end of the table sighed, "I wish I could always be in the middle of reading <em>Mrs. Dalloway.</em>" Become a teacher, I thought, and your wish can come true.</p>
</span><div>Best,</div><div>Emily<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Emily Kopley<br>Ph. D. Candidate, English Literature<br>Stanford University<br>
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