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"Teachers are making sure kids do their own homework by knowing CliffsNotes, SparkNotes and other resources as well as their students do.


Teachers either love them or hate them, but free, online study guides such as SparkNotes are rapidly becoming a primary student resource for everything from "The Scarlet Letter" to Shakespeare.

With the click of a mouse, students have access to a plot overview, chapter summaries, character analyses, and explanations of important quotations, themes, motifs, and symbols for hundreds of titles.

Memorial High School's Garnell Riddle and Owasso High School's Beverly Arnold represent opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to English teachers' views about SparkNotes.

Riddle, chairwoman of the English Department at Memorial, encourages her students to use them as a supplement, but not a substitute, for their class reading assignments, while Arnold categorically forbids the use of study guides. "

Way to go mom! Way to evolve your teaching to meet kids where they are!

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