Michael P. Mazenko is a school administrator and an AP English teacher in suburban Colorado. Originally from Illinois, he completed his BS in Education at the University of Illinois and received an MA in English Language and Literature from Southern Illinois University. After earning his teaching degree in 1992, Michael taught English in Taiwan for five years. He taught middle school English in the city of Chicago and high school English in Edwardsville Illinois before moving to Colorado in 2003. Michael has written commentary for the Denver Post for many years, serving as a Colorado Voices columnist in 2009.
What do we mean by the "voice of a generation"?
I once read a pop culture essay which identified thriller writer John Grisham as “this generation’s Charles Dickens.” Part of me smiled at the cool insight the reference provided to an author I enjoyed escaping with; the other part of me rolled my eyes in snobby contempt for such an outrageous, aloof, and absurd statement. […]
and Tarantino's Cat
“Okay,” I said. “It’s time to kill Hamlet.” A classroom full of AP English students stared up at me, unsure how to take my somewhat crass proclamation. We were about to finish Shakespeare’s masterful tragedy on a bright spring day in late April — truly the cruelest month, at least for Danish princes and slightly […]
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