When Robert S. Leadbetter taught English to students at Wheaton Central and Wheaton-Warrenville South High Schools, he attempted to infuse the same love for literature in his students that he felt for works such as Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.”
And when he taught writing, he challenged students to avoid peppering their works with flowery language by i ...
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