Archive - High School English

The Strangers All Are Gone

When does summer begin? It begins now.

Jun 5 •

Katherine Sharpe

April 2025

Schrödinger's Seniors

On being in and out of high school AT THE SAME TIME

Apr 26 •

Katherine Sharpe

January 2025

Happy New Year.

Jan 9 •

Katherine Sharpe

October 2024

An Essay on Parenting: Part 1 of 3

Oct 7, 2024 •

Katherine Sharpe

July 2024

How a teacher gets down in July

Jul 12, 2024 •

Katherine Sharpe

May 2024

The End of Days

It's Less Than a Month Till Commencement

May 9, 2024 •

Katherine Sharpe

February 2024

The Trouble with Teaching English

A note from the school year's two angstiest months

Feb 17, 2024 •

Katherine Sharpe

January 2024

The end of two eras

Jan 6, 2024 •

Katherine Sharpe

November 2023

Romeo and Juliet

On Teaching, Divorce, and the Comforts of Art

Nov 10, 2023 •

Katherine Sharpe

March 2023

The Catcher in the Rye

It’s almost spring, and the ninth graders are reading The Catcher in the Rye again.

Mar 25, 2023 •

Katherine Sharpe

July 2022

Why Can't the People Have What They Want?

On doing fun things at an un-fun time

Jul 19, 2022 •

Katherine Sharpe

December 2020

The Telephone Disease

Sometimes I think about a passage in the first part of Slaughterhouse-Five, where a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut describes how he sometimes gets drunk in…

Dec 7, 2020 •

Katherine Sharpe

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