📚 A 10-year retrospective on 10th grade English

A review of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn & The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats

Tenth grade was one of the few years I had a really fantastic English teacher; Mrs. Costello was the only English teacher I not only liked well enough as a person, but remember as being genuinely good at teaching. She was a veteran who graded papers in sparkly gel pen and thoughtfully took home my painfully emoted teenaged poetry and tried to help me tu…