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 language. Show all posts

Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

10.3.24

Language Meets Art: Exploring 'Amor' and 'Caritas' in Augustus-Saint-Gaudens’ Work at The Met 🌟🖼️

Explore the captivating intersection of language and art in Augustus Saint-Gaudens' masterpiece, Amor and Caritas, at The Met. A linguis...

29.10.18

Two Photographs: Push (推) and Pull (拉)

I was walking on Bowery on a Fall day in Lower Manhattan and I was struck by the simplicity (and pragmatism) of these two opposite facing si...

29.8.17

"Welcome" in Nine Languages

Photo by Cathal Mac an Bheatha on Unsplash Inspired by the welcome sign in the Museum of Modern Art's lobby, it behooves me to ...

15.8.12

On the Double Humiliation of Standing Inside and Outside of the Vernacular

It's humiliating to speak only in code, only in a punished, subaltern idiom; but it's humiliating to stand outside that vernac...

4.2.11

30 Ways to say "Sheep Skin"

Thanks to a tag on a sheepskin rug sold at Ikea in Hicksville, New York, one can easily learn to say "peau de mouton" in thirty la...

30.9.09

Word Diary: How I Discovered Coded Languages Like "Pig Latin" and "King Tut" as a Child (And As an Adult Learned More About Their History)

In this post (which is an update of the original post I wrote in 2009), I write about the use of encoded words and phrases that have meaning...

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