Archive - Plotting Plots

Read All Shakespeare’s Plays at Once

They all have 5 acts, so that's where things get really interesting

Feb 8 • Tom Liam Lynch

Tolkien’s Lesson on Computationality and Creativity

–Whilst Smoking His Pipe

Feb 8 • Tom Liam Lynch

BardBots: Literature Meets Robotics in the Classroom

BardBots is a project in which students are introduced to key concepts in computational thinking via an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and robots.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

Classroom Resources (Updated)

Here's where I try to keep up with interesting resources for integrating CS and ELA.

Feb 1 • Tom Liam Lynch

January 2026

Introducing Plotting Plots

A look back at how it all started.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

Make Some Plots

Here you will find direct links to interactive data visualizations for a wide variety of books. Enjoy.

Jan 26 • Tom Liam Lynch

January 2025

In The Hunger Games Love Triangle, Did Gale Ever Really Stand a Chance?

A quantitative analysis of Katniss’ love interests in Suzanne Collins's blockbuster novel

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

Literature + Math ="Once Upon a Prime"

A math professor's wonderful argument for bridging the worlds of numbers and letters

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

For Nobodies to Know Bodies in The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

After reading Christina Hammonds Reed’s novel The Black Kids, I wanted to return to the concept of “nobody” from Emily Dickinson’s poem. Reed refers to…

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

Reading The Hate U Give with Data Visualizations

When reading a book, our eyes scan over thousands of words so regularly and our minds imagine the story into reality so effortlessly that we forget…

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

What Breakfast Tells Us about Marianne in Normal People by Sally Rooney

You are what you eat, they say.

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

How Sally Rooney Uses Pronouns in the Novel Conversations with Friends

When it was announced that filming had begun for the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel Conversations with Friends, it reminded me how…

Jan 20, 2025 • Tom Liam Lynch

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