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… Introduction: If we want students to write well, it’s good to emphasize correction marks. When students use them, it helps them to focus on the writing and to think about punctuation and syntax. All correction marks are pretty similar. … Continue reading
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Introduction: Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and shortening compound sentences with the correlative conjunctions neither, either, so, and too. The first four lessons in The Rabbit and the Turtle are pre-reading, designed to get students used to working together writing, … Continue reading
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… Objective: Students will understand the simple structure of a sentence by writing four kinds of sentences using the completed Venn diagrams from Activity One as prompts: affirmative and negative sentences, and Yes/No and explanation questions. Students will write explanation … Continue reading
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… Goldfinch balanced on the sunflower’s head Flies off swaying the plant just like the wind. The sun comes up the trees and lies down in The field where a red hawk begins to spread Its great slow wings breaking … Continue reading
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… Introduction: Because a fable like the Rabbit and the Turtle deals with essential human truths everyone understands, it’s a good place for ESL students to start to work together. This lesson is geared toward High Beginners/Low Intermediates, but it … Continue reading
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… Today I picked Uncle Al’s tomatoes for the last time. Many were over ripe rotten, had cracked or fallen. I was tired but constant and making an effort to exercise, bent holding my abdomen in reaching into the vines … Continue reading
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… Swallows gather on the electric wire One after the other in a row. I Approach as some fly up and swarm the sky Hundreds of them sweeping out. I’m inspired Watching them burst and swoop and blend and flow … Continue reading
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… A little spider on the written page Looks up at me. I do not bother her Nor does she me where I have come to lay Myself down in the grass like a brother Queen Anne’s Lace crowning our … Continue reading
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… I let down the umbrella on the dock Enclosing the wasps inside who’ve summered Up in the ribs. I had to do it. Not Only is it sunset but September The summer is almost over and I Must go … Continue reading
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… April 10th at the Chelsea Square. I have some questions to ask Bill sent to me by several poets and writers. There is a family eating at the next table chattering away happily. Although I fear Bill won’t be … Continue reading
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… … My Sisters So what’s love? I’d watch my 2 older sisters Spend hours in front of mirrors, doing things With their lips, incredible! they’d make Their faces look down this way, up that way & why? I’d hear … Continue reading
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… The following Saturday, March 20th, was sunny and wonderful. I spent the morning priming my study, hurrying to Janovic Plaza to order some paint, and got over to the Chelsea Square to talk with Bill who arrived looking very … Continue reading