Camp NaNoWriMo 2020 Winner

As I was researching World Myths for my upcoming Fall 2020 classes, I ran into a traditional myth about how disease came into the world. I was already familiar with the myth of Pandora, so I started to think: Could this be a resource I could create for families to...

Heroic U Alumni Offer Free Online Benefit Concert

At Heroic U, we offer fun, relevant literature classes for creative and independent-thinking students.  So it’s no surprise that such creativity spills outside of the classroom and into the real world! Three Heroic U students who spent several years...

Book review: The Rose and the Dagger

I like to read North Carolina authors, and I like to read multicultural authors, so this book is a “twofer” because author Renée Ahdieh is a woman of mixed race married to a Persian husband as well as an UNC-Chapel Hill graduate living in Charlotte.  The...

Book review:  Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

Now that our 2015-16 Heroic U classes are officially over, I have some time to catch up on some other great YA reading that I missed when teaching.  So my first book of the summer was Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.  And what a great book to...