Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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Showing posts with label imagination. Show all posts

Showing posts with label imagination. Show all posts

8.5.19

On the Imagination: Doors Are Indicators of Openings Into Other Worlds

The original Poltergeist movie (1982) perfectly utilizes the ancient idea of a portal to another world. I took a class in Graduate schoo...

31.10.18

Third Grader Channels Pennywise the Clown at the Annual Halloween Parade in Jackson Heights, Queens

Annual Jackson Heights Halloween Parade In Jackson Heights, every year on Halloween, the local "Beautification Society" hosts a...

10.8.17

Throwback Thursday: Pet Hamsters Were All the Rage (and My Pet Hamster Hails from Another Dimension)

As a child, my little brother (pictured above) and I believed that our pet hamster Hammie controlled an interdimensional portal betwe...

10.10.10

A Gloss on the Child and Wonder

"Blue Boy" Thomas Gainsborough Warning: This is merely a gloss and not a full argument. I am trying to think of the impli...

6.2.10

Literary Tropes: Into the Woods

In this post, I point out features of literature that attend to the trope of going into the woods . The woods are a dark and scary plac...

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