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Inspired by her own family history, Carter decided to write about a girl who is kidnapped from her African home and enslaved in Tennessee, where she secretly learns to read despite her plantation’s rules.
“Twelve years old to 18—that’s a key point in your life; you grow so much,” she muses. “There’s definitely my own growth story somewhere in there.”
As she asks the students about their own conceptions of these three values and their knowledge of African-American history, her cheerful refrain of “very good, very good” in response to each child’s contribution reveals her enthusiasm for teaching.
According to an e-mail sent yesterday by Winthrop House Administrator Joanna G. Miller, Winthropians have recently found themselves squeezed out of their own dining halls by outsiders scrambling for table space. The Masters and House Committee concluded that some inter-house dining restrictions were in order. They are not...
Don’t know where you can eat anymore? One rule of thumb is that the farther the House from the Yard, the better your odds of finding a place to eat. Dunster, Mather, and the Quad Houses will still welcome you with open arms no matter...