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cara.crandall replied to the topic Cara Crandall — Massachusetts in the forum Introductions 8 years, 3 months ago
Thanks, Wendy! The support is most appreciated!
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cara.crandall started the topic Cara Crandall — Massachusetts in the forum Introductions 8 years, 3 months ago
Good morning from a rainy and dreary western Massachusetts!
While I currently live in Amherst, I consider myself a Bostonian as that’s where I have lived most of my life and where my family life has been centered since people arrived in America from England (1600s) and Italy (early 1900s). I spent my adolescence living in New Jersey and New York…[Read more]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, Five Chimneys – Optional 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
In OAS, Sondra raises the question, “…what, then, remains after the emptiness? What do those of us who live in its aftermath inherit? What are we to do? How are we to act?” (201). I found these questions so […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, Five Chimneys – Optional 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Michelle: I hadn’t consider how much she was able to resist until she pointed out the various ways she was able to hold onto her dignity and control. I wonder if being able to resist, even in small ways, helped […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Now that I have finished On Austrian Soul and have reflected on it, I see Sondra’s book as the perfect companion for After Such Knowledge. I’m glad I read them in the order I did. Hoffman talks a lot about […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Hadley: Thanks so much for your reply! I think that it’s true of all children that the idea of our parents’ suffering is just too horrible to bear. How do we comfort the adult who is supposed to take care of […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Peter: I feel very much the same as you are articulating here. I recently saw that movie as well, and was stunned by the realities of life for the group of people who had to hide in the sewers. Like you, I have […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Jon and Katy: I really agree with Katy’s point because as I was reading and reflecting about OAS, I kept seeing so many connections with Hoffman’s work. I did read Hoffman and then Perl, and it almost seemed […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Lisa: I made a very similar statement to my students this year, when I told them that their grade was unimportant to me. They were in shock as if I had said something really crazy. I tried to explain to them […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
Hey Cassie:
I really appreciate that you picked up this idea because it was also of interest to me, even before reading Sondra’s book. I agree with her idea that our environment shapes us a lot. When I think […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
In one of Margret’s letters, she quotes from Vito Perrone, and raises a question: “What is it I want my students to understand as a result of their schooling?” (172). I love this question, and I think it’s one […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, Five Chimneys – Optional 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
I have read the first 50 pages or so of Olga’s book, and I had to put the book down and walk away. Her documentary style of writing gives the simple facts of her experience, but the reality of those facts and the […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 9 months ago
In Hoffman’s last chapter, she tells readers that “…how we turn away from the Holocaust matters,” (266), and then goes on to suggest that such a movement away involves a series of tasks. As she ends her book, she […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
I am reading Hoffman’s book a second time; I read it originally when it was first published several years ago because I have been particularly interested in the second generation since I read Helen Epstein’s […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 10 years, 11 months ago
Hello everyone!
I am Cara Crandall, and I’m currently a 7th grade ELA teacher in Longmeadow, a small town in western Massachusetts. I’m also a full-time doctoral student at U Mass. Amherst School of […]
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cara.crandall commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 10 years, 11 months ago
Hey Sam! I’m from Boston, and was teaching in Hyde Park until I moved to Western Massachusetts. I was an ESL teacher in HP, working with students who were from Haiti, so I’d love to chat with you about […]
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