Change to writing adds new chapters Former Beavercreek schoolteacher became an author after studying romance novels.Laura Dempsey Staff Writer
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its mystical and scientific history, practical spiritual development, and to her surprise, fiction novels, likeFrankensteinby Mary Shelley. “An alchemical classic,” Alan said, as he thrust his copy into her hands. She read and studied everything with the determination of an overachieving student...
In a previous post, I wrote about ways toaddress perfectionism in student writing. We write daily in my classroom because quantity leads to quality. Sometimes the prompts are in response to quotes. Other times, I have my students respond to something completely bonkers. Oftentimes, these prompts...
Frequently, though, it also leads to conversations like the one I had a few days ago, when a student came up to me very excited and asked if I’d seen Venom: The Last Dance yet because she wanted to talk about it, and I had to sadly disappoint her and say, “No, I’ve got a...
The student was a 10-year-old girl named Ryan Neighbors. Born with a defect calledspina bifida(脊椎裂), she has to use a wheelchair for her___life. Because of the lack of wheelchair access, previous school trips had been a___to the young girl. This year, Neighbors’ family learned...
Eric is a student.He loves reading stories,especially the stories from the four famous novels in China.Monkey King is his favorite character.( 4 ) GTina likes sad stories.She reads this kind of stories from the newspaper every day.( 5 ) DPeter dreams to be an army general in the...
and the supernatural. Emerging in the late 18th century and solidifying its presence in the 19th century, Gothic melodrama incorporated the quintessential features of melodrama—such as sensationalism, moral division, and heightened emotion—with Gothic motifs including haunted castles, doomed romance, and...
I get asked for book recommendations all the time, and I truly enjoy being able to match kids in specific situations with books that could help them. A few days ago, I got a message from a former student who’s working with 3rd-5th grade girls, mostly Hispanic and African American, who...
Heaven Falls “As a student of Greek and Roman ancient history, I especially enjoyed the short paragraphs at the beginning of each chapter, which focus on a specific herb; its history and its primary uses over the centuries as an essential oil. I went so far as to bookmark each chapter ...