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30.9.09

Literary Terms: "P" is for Paradox

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Literary terms are often tricky for students. So I came up with this guide for the perplexed. Paradox - a statement that is apparently sel...
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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)

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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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26.9.09

H is for Home

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Parts of the drop ceiling in my apartment fell in the kitchen. Is it trite to speak of home? Cliché, maybe. But, home resonates.  At the...
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19.9.09

Greig Roselli's 100th Post on Stones Of Erasmus

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The one-hundredth post of anything should not go unrecognized. You could say, "What the hell? One hundred posts? Who cares?" I wil...

From the Desk of a High School English Teacher: Teacher Gripe Session from the Trenches

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It is the fifth week ending of a second-year teaching odyssey. I am a high school English teacher and I am feeling the real effects of teach...
11.9.09

Movie Review: In Juno (2007) Jason Reitman Attempts to Make Us Feel Genuine Emotion

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Juno (starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera) Maybe it was director Jason Reitman's sleight of hand   that actually got to me rather...

An Interview with My Former Self (When I Was a Benedictine Monk)

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When I was a Benedictine monk, I was interviewed by a high school student for his school project.  His teacher had asked him to interview a ...