Spring 2010 Faculty Seminar Series
4/8/2010
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:30-8:30 p.m.
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St. Andrew's alumni, parents & friends
are invited to
The 2010 Spring Faculty Seminar Series
Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:30pm - 8:30pm
 CANCELED due to family emergencyTad RoachGeorge Washington University Washington, DC
Tragedy and Laceration in Tolstoy
An Examination of Four Chapters from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina:
Part I, Chapter 18
Part I, Chapters 29 and 30
Part II, Chapter 11
Part VII, Chapters 30 and 31
 This seminar is full - names will be added to a wait list.
John Austin
Charlotte City Club
121 West Trade Street
Charlotte, NC
The Fate of Reading in the Digital Age
We will discuss the impact new technologies are having on how students read, write and learn and explore how schools, especially residential boarding schools, shoud adapt -- or not adapt -- to this changing lanscape.
 Will SpeersSt. Andrew's School
Gahagan Room
350 Noxontown Road
Middletown, DE
Beginnings: Five Classics: Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident, Schlink's The Reader, Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and a few contemporary novels to test our ability to discern the author's intent in the opening moments of the novel.
 Darcy Caldwell
The Union Club
Eight Park Street
Boston, MAA Literary Look at the Nature of Good & Evil through Selected American and British Writers
Moving between lecture and roundtable discussion, we will look at our sinful savage historical past and consider the hope for our benevolent future through the lens of Mark Twain, William Golding, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Cormac McCarthy and Alan Moore. Please click HERE for seminar materials.
 Emily Pressman
Midtown Executive Club
40 West 45th Street
New York, NY
Rehearsal for Integration: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation
This talk will consider the Milford, Del., high school desegregation crisis in 1954 (the fall after the Brown v. Board decision was handed down), which offered the nation a dramatic picture of the challenges that would lie ahead as integration proceeded.
A Tradition of Dynamic Teachers
Come See for Yourself !
Space is limited, so please RSVP Cynthia Poarch at 302/285-4257 or cpoarch@standrews-de.org
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