A Year in the Life…

of an Honors Modern Fiction Student! Throughout this school year, I have been writing a blog (mostly) about my Honors Modern Fiction Class at Northern Highlands Regional High School. My first blog post was called “Six Word Memoir” where I wrote a memoir/poem in 6 words. Here is mine. We made these “memoirs” on the […]

Slaughterhouse Swift

One of the most iconic lines from the novel Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut is “so it goes”. This saying is repeated over 100 times in the book and is used whenever someone dies or is going to die in the novel. Pretty gruesome. It is a custom that Billy Pilgrim (the protagonist in the book) picked up […]

Slippery Snapchat

This is a blog post based off of an article written by Avery Erwin called “How I Fell Out of Love with the Internet”. For a class assignment, we had to mimic the writing style of the author and the topic. In this blog, I chose to write about Snapchat because it is something that […]

She’ll Make a Man Out of Herself.

I think you’ll agree with me when I say that women’s rights have come a long way over the past three centuries, but they still have a long way to go. And if you don’t agree with me then this blog post is definitely not for you. Title- 23: Mulan Speakers- Rachael Marr and Carlea […]

Illusion of Truth

What happens when a lie somehow becomes the truth? Or that the one person you’re always supposed to be able to trust destroys your life? What if your life could’ve been normal if it weren’t for the lies and deceit? The new Hulu original The Act follows a young girl named Gypsy Blanchard (Joey King) who is […]

Dear Evan Hansen (& MoMA)

On April 3, 2019 Honors Modern Fiction classes taught by Dr. Zucker at Northern Highlands Regional High School had the privilege of going to the Modern Museum of Art and Dear Evan Hansen in New York City. On this trip we were able to see two different art forms, one through actual pieces of artwork […]

1949 to 1984 to 2019

Recently we read 1984 by George Orwell. [Low Key Spoilers Ahead…] The book consists of a man named Winston Smith, who lives under the control of a totalitarian government, known as Big Brother and the Party. The government controls all aspects of life to conserve their power over the citizens, especially through what is known and telescreens and the […]

Deep Fakes- A Tech Talk

This week in Honors Modern Fiction, we ran a class facilitation about potential issues and current dangers that are present in 2019. In addition, we had to relate these threats to the book 1984 by George Orwell. My partner and I chose to focus on a new technology with dangerous implications, this technology is known as Deep Fakes. A […]

Overrated Oscars

The Academy Awards ®, or the Oscars®, as most people know them to recognize the best movies of the 2018 movie season. But do they really because I feel like some of the movies that won Oscars came out this year… or its only movies from the end of the year- like movies from August-December, never the […]

Conspiracy Series

*WARNING: SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD* I am subscribed to Shane Dawson who has been on YouTube since 2009. He has gone thrown many phases ranging from skits, to vlogging, and now conspiracy theories. This has been a series before his YouTube channel but they have never been an hour an a half long and this engaging with the audience. […]