Miss Katz is Sonia’s history teacher for her junior year of high school. She’s the first to ask Sonia to synthesize information into compelling arguments rather than just regurgitate facts, and Sonia remembers her later in college when professors ask her to do the same. During high school, however, Miss Katz is the only teacher to ask this of her students. For this—and possibly because she’s politically active and progressive—she only teaches at Cardinal Spellman for one year.
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Miss Katz Character Timeline in My Beloved World
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Chapter 12
Junior year, Sonia has a teacher named Miss Katz for history. She’s different from the other teachers in that she’s not a nun, and...
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Chapter 15
...as upper-level courses and, importantly, help her learn to engage critically with a subject, as Miss Katz tried to teach her, instead of just regurgitating facts. Later, as a lawyer and a...
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