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Does anyone know of a short story about a man who picks up and umbrella and it helps him to fly?
I'd be really grateful to find it again.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
(Posted on a couple of other boards too.)
I have many of the student and teacher textbooks in the Collection series for sale. I will sell cheap. Just email me if you want a list of titles and ISBN's.
Hello all, wanted to bring your attention to a new storytelling contest called "So to Speak." Submissions close at the end of the month. Details are at www DOT s2scontest DOT com. Please don't let your students miss this amazing opportunity!
Anyone looking for a good abridged version of Hamlet for a classroom play? I have a set I used successfully for years with middle school and continuation high school students. I loved it so much I couldn't part with it when I retired. Now cleaning out my closet. Any takers?
by Janet Byron Anderson, PhD
Nov 20, 2017
Let me first wish all of you happiness, health, and family joy during the coming holidays. I'm posting as a guest.
As a professionally trained linguist (PhD., U of Pennsylvania), I learned through field work that checking language as real people use and evaluate it is an antidote to over-reliance upon untested theories, and to the arroganc...See MoreLet me first wish all of you happiness, health, and family joy during the coming holidays. I'm posting as a guest.
As a professionally trained linguist (PhD., U of Pennsylvania), I learned through field work that checking language as real people use and evaluate it is an antidote to over-reliance upon untested theories, and to the arrogance that an abstract approach often engenders.
Therefore, I'm reaching out to you, real teachers in the field, for advice. I'd be grateful to learn from you two things.
First, what criticisms do you have of the way that grammar is presented in the textbooks or other resources that you use? (You don't have to name titles or authors. Your criticisms alone will help me.)
Second, what would you think of a new approach—humorous short fiction--to teaching grammar, especially the more problematic areas of grammar, for an audience of adults; that is, people of high-school age and older? Since this approach is new, you need to see what it looks like. An example of my experiments in this area is found in my short humorous "Message from the Infinitive" posted on my website. [Sorry, forum rules prohibit links, but if you type this title in Exact, on Google's Advanced Search, the story will pop up early in results.] If you can spare a little time, please read it and let me know what you think.
Where am I coming from on this?
As an independent linguist, I edit peer-reviewed articles and also work as a language & linguistics consultant for agencies that seek my help. In addition, as a service to community, I tutor kids ages 6-17 in language. I've been dismayed by errors made by adults, most of whom have higher degrees (including PhDs and MDs), who certainly learned the basics when they were younger—but they forgot, or barely paid attention when the rules were taught. I cast blame this way: "Most people resist grammar because they think it's dull. So it's understandable that they'd forget what they never liked in the first place".
However, the sheer magnitude of errors and of the educated people committing them made me question my assumption. I began to think, "No, most people resist grammar because it really IS dull". We grammarians and linguists must make this right. Hence my experiments with a new approach. "Message from the Infinitive" is one of them. If you like it, let me know. Please feel free to download it and use it pedagogically. Just give credit.
It would be a blessing to hear from you. And please continue your excellent work.
Janet
I was wondering what everyone else thought about making this book a requirement read for a sophomore class? One independent teacher is doing this with her junior student who is currently enrolled in 10th English. I just think there are much better novels than this simple and non-challenging read not to mention the cringing content.
Does anybody have a source for unit/lesson plans for High School creative writing?
Does anyone know where to find assessments for the start of the year?
Do students come up here to
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