The Collected Barsanti

Is that self-important enough? For the last year or so, I have been writing the occaisional long letter to the YACK list-serv. I write this about the island and some of the problems that are and will be occuring.

Opinions: In my regular "All the News That Counts" I routinely rip up the I&M's editorials for sloppy thinking, bad grammar, and nightmarish diction. So, to be constructive, I write my own editorial each week.

• Hell in a Handbasket (New 1.15)
• Instructions
• New Year's Resolutions
• Christmas
• Paris Hilton and Me (New 12.15)
• Looming over the Stroll
• Pilgrim, Baxter, and Us
• Arrogance and the SSA
• The Miss-take
• Death by Override
• Halloween
• Dan Hoague
• Labor Day and the Labor is Leaving
• September is Good
• October is Better
• SSA Pats Itself On the Back
• Let the Kids Party, It's What I Did
• Waiting for the Hurricane
• Goodbye to Phil and Elisabeth
• Coming and Going: Everett Pierce becomes the Fire Chief

Letters to the Editor: I write to the Vineyard and the Globe with disturbing regularity.

• Send us the Islander and you can keep the Eagle
• Shutkin is an idiot
• None of us can live here

Plutocrats on Parade: Using the Internet to learn about our new neighbors

• Musser
• Barnett
• Singh

Spring 2003

• Ten rules for the Nantucket Summer
• Why I Hate the Pops
• Movies and the English Teacher: Life, living and grading papers
• The Ladder: Nantucket's oddly stratified society.
• Dear Mr. Fantasy...Finding the right metaphor for Nantucket.
• Westmoor: How to win the vote....if only it did.
• Whales of Connecticut: How Nantucket is becoming the land of Plutocrats
• Whales of Connecticut, part 2
• The Roof Is On Fire: On the 2002 School Budget Battle

Teaching

• The Unofficial Guide to the MCAS Language Exam
• Introduction: What is so Special about Sophomores?: From my textbook
• My Chapel talk discusses the importance of laughing at yourself.
• Why Bunnies aren't Poems: How to Write a Poetry Essay A quick and instructive essay on writing about poetry.
• Women and Moby Dick, a model essay
• One more For the Road, a model poetry essay
• Ave Atque Vale Farewell to St. Mark's.

The Lazy English Teacher's Guide to the MCAS Exam My approach to dealing with the new test.

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