Shmoop Opinions Encourages Students and Teachers to Debate Literature, History, Poetry, Life

Shmoop a fun, deep, plain-spoken online learning and teaching resource, added Shmoop Opinions to its website.
By: Paul Thompson
 
June 22, 2009 - PRLog -- MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Shmoop (http://www.shmoop.com/) a fun, deep, plain-spoken online learning and teaching resource, added Shmoop Opinions to its website. Shmoop Opinions is a question-and-answer forum that helps students and teachers tackle difficult questions.

“Shmoop teaches students that there is rarely one correct answer,” said Brady Wood, vice president of Shmoop. “Literature, poetry, and history are often open to interpretation. We created Shmoop Opinions as a forum to allow students and teachers to see multiple sides of an argument, sharpen their viewpoints, and post questions and opinions of their own.”
Shmoop Opinions is already cultivating some interesting debates.

• In Shmoop Literature, the Hamlet Opinions forum is home to a debate over the difference (if any) between the mad and sane characters in the play.  

• In Shmoop US History, the Civil War Opinions forum, Shmoop tackles the thorny, age-old question, “what caused the Civil War?”

• In Shmoop Poetry, the Dream Deferred Opinions forum allows students and teachers to posit their own question to Langston Hughes’s poignant question, “what happens to a dream deferred?”

Shmoop offers study guides and teaching resources for literature, US history, poetry, and essay writing, with more subjects coming soon. Shmoop is produced by experts and educators from top U.S. universities, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University.

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Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poems and American History. It’s a perfect aid for students and teachers seeking guidance with advance study, essays and writing papers. It promises to make learning and writing more fun and relevant.
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