After all, I am still a talkative girl who likes shopping though I do most of my shopping online now. My 12-year-old self would have no idea what that even means! These are the kind of keepsakes I want to have for my own children. I would love my kids to write the poem in ...
“Form” refers to the structure of the poem. Is the poem asonnet, a villanelle, a free verse piece, a slam poem, a contrapuntal, aghazal, ablackout poem, or something new and experimental? Form also refers to the line breaks and stanza breaks in a poem. Unlike prose, where the end...
non-fiction book or poem. Students will write responses to the prompts on the task cards. The writing prompts can be used with any book. There are 140 task cards for a total of 67 pages. You can have students use the cards individually or in a group. There is also a rubric that wil...
The holiday season is a magical time when friends and family gather together. It's a time for cozy nights by the fireplace, sipping hot cocoa or cider or bundling up in coats and mittens to carol in the snow. Christmastime is full of traditions, some of which have surprising origins.Hist...
I’m about to fall merrily into all those pits I’ve just identified. The poem I’ve chosen to write about: I picked it in part because it was one of the last poems written for the book, so it’s a fresh kill, and in part because I know it’s...
197. You can pick out the important bits, for it is one thing to write a letter, another to write history. 198. Fruit trees and crops were damaged/ reported, but none of the people was / were reported injured/ injuring/ injury. 199. The morning had been fine, for/ because there was...
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is back to tracking Santa for a 67th year on its website. The tradition began in 1955 when a young child who was trying to reach Santa, dialed the wrong number given out by a local department store. Instead of calling Santa, the child...
197. You can pick out the important bits, for it is one thing to write a letter, another to write history. 198. Fruit trees and crops were damaged/ reported, but none of the people was / were reported injured/ injuring/ injury. 199. The morning had been fine, for/ because there was...
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