Tag: English

“Boston in the Diasporic Imagination” Senior Seminar Visits Murals in Roxbury

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Dr. Carlos Martinez’s “Boston in the Diasporic Imagination” Senior Seminar took a field trip to see murals in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. These murals were mentioned in Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty, which the class is currently reading.  The “Boston in the Diasporic Imagination” class relishes in some of Boston’s rich immigrant history as […]

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HOS Blog: Homer with a Side of Humor

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I visited a ninth-grade English class yesterday. The group was discussing an early passage in Homer’s Odyssey where Telemachus, Odysseus’s son, was expressing frustration about the bad behavior of the suitors, who were vying for his mother’s hand in his father’s long absence during his return from Troy and shamefully taking advantage of the hospitality […]

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