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Ranae Rudd

Becoming a Wàiguó Rén: An American perspective on China

Becoming a Wàiguó Rén: An American perspective on China

I spent four months in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, as a volunteer English teacher at the end of 2016. I learned how to haggle, how to say a handful of phrases in Chinese, and how to navigate subways, which (as a Utahn) I’d never had to do before. I
Ranae Rudd 15 Jul 2021
Poetry is Power

Poetry is Power

When I tell my seventh-grade students we’re reading poetry, their response is usually the same: one long, collective groan. I try not to let it get to me, but it’s still disheartening. Their unenthusiastic reaction is similar to the response I hear from adults when words like “sonnet”
Ranae Rudd 27 Apr 2021
Finding Quality News Part II: Some Advice From Our Team

Finding Quality News Part II: Some Advice From Our Team

When I was a graduate student at Brigham Young University, I received weekly training on how to teach BYU’s first-year composition course. One such training focused on helping students find credible sources for their research papers. To illustrate the importance of finding factual sources, our professor described the story
Ranae Rudd 11 Feb 2021
“One is the Sum of the Fractions of Us”

“One is the Sum of the Fractions of Us”

One is the sum of the fractions of us 'Cus we're broken and we're bent But together this puzzle makes so much sense –Mindy Gledhill Growing up in Utah, I always identified as Republican. I didn’t know much about Democrats except that all their
Ranae Rudd 04 Feb 2021

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