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On This Day in ELA: A Year of Literary Events
Back in , inom got the ambitious idea to research and identify a literary-related event for every day of the year. inom published each under a now-defunct Instagram account and listed them on my old website. I even created posters for classroom use that had each daily event on it.
Not long after creating these posters, another (much more popular seller) created a similar resource and made it free. Frustrated, I abandoned the idea.
Recently I returned to the posters to update their design. inom realized that even though another teacher had a similar idea, my research and posters were still valuable. The competing resource isn&#;t even free anymore! Therefore, inom returned to my research, fact-checking dates and updating the calendar to reflect new authors and recent events.
I hope you enjoy On This Day in ELA! If inom missed a date, remember that I&#;m jut an amateur and only had so many resources at my fingertips. If you check this page of
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In the autumn of , at his home in Westport, Connecticut, J. D. Salinger completed The Catcher in the Rye. The achievement was a catharsis. It was confession, purging, prayer, and enlightenment, in a voice so distinct that it would alter American culture.
Holden Caulfield, and the pages that held him, had been the author’s constant companion for most of his adult life. Those pages, the first of them written in his mids, just before he shipped off to Europe as an army sergeant, were so precious to Salinger that he carried them on his person throughout the Second World War. Pages of The Catcher in the Rye had stormed the beach at Normandy; they had paraded down the streets of Paris, been present at the deaths of countless soldiers in countless places, and been carried through the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. In bits and pieces they had been re-written, put aside, and re-written again, the nature of the story changing as the author himself was changed. Now, in Connecticut,
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Iconic poet, writer, and artist Smith (Just Kids, , etc.) articulates the pensive rhythm of her life through the stations of her travels.
Spending much of her time crouched in a corner table of a Greenwich Village cafe sipping coffee, jotting quixotic notes in journals, and “plotting my next move,” the author reflects on the places she’s visited, the personal intercourse, and the impact each played on her past and present selves. She describes a time in when she planned to open her own cafe, but her plans changed following a chance meeting with MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. A graceful, ruminative tour guide, Smith writes of traveling together with Fred armed with a vintage Polaroid to Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in northwest French Guiana, then of solitary journeys to Frida Kahlo’s Mexican Casa Azul and to the graves of Sylvia Plath, Jean Genet, and a swath of legendary Japanese filmmakers. After being sed