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Grammar Rules!
Thu Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2010
Learning grammar doesn't have to be dreary! Long gone are the days of sentence diagramming, or so it seems if you check out the fun interactive content on these grammar sites:
Grammaropolis
Grammar Bytes
Grammar Gorillas
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Word Routes
"Kanye": Rebirth of an Eponym
Wed Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2010
If you watched the Oscars on Sunday, like many other viewers you were probably left scratching your head when, after "Music by Prudence" won for Best Documentary Short, there was a struggle for the microphone between two of the film's creators. Elinor Burkett snatched the microphone from Roger Ross Williams, in what was almost immediately dubbed a "Kanye moment." Or you could say Burkett "pulled a Kanye," or that Williams simply got "Kanye'd."
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Teachers at Work
Reading What You Want
Tue Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
Michele Dunaway teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri, when she's not writing best-selling romance novels. Here Michele continues her discussion from last month about how choosing the right literature to read is the key to getting students excited about books.
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Lesson Plans
Using Key Words to Unlock Math Word Problems
Tue Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
How can identifying key words help students solve mathematical word problems?
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Word Count
Tick-Tock: Productive Writing, Pomodoro Style
Mon Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2010
I'm a big believer in the magic of three. You know — the three little pigs, the three Musketeers, the three Stooges. There's something ineffable but magical about a list of three. So, when I had three unrelated people forward me a Wall Street Journal article on the Pomodoro technique in less than a week, well, I took it as a sign. This was something I needed to investigate!
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Word Routes
At the Movies: Plumbing the Depths of "The Hurt Locker"
Fri Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2010
One of the frontrunners for Best Picture in Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony is Kathryn Bigelow's tense depiction of a U.S. bomb squad unit in Iraq, The Hurt Locker. The movie's official website says of the title, "In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to 'the hurt locker.'" In fact, like so much American military slang, hurt locker (along with related hurt expressions) dates back to the Vietnam War.
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Behind the Dictionary
Do's and Don'ts for Singular "They"
Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2010
For National Grammar Day, linguist Neal Whitman takes a look at a long-standing source of contention among grammar enthusiasts: singular they. (Grammar purists, prepare yourselves for some unconventional rules!)
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Blog Du Jour
It's National Grammar Day!
Thu Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2010
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Evasive Maneuvers
A Bad Case of the Peedoodles
Wed Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2010
When you obsess about words as much as I do, it's hard to pick a favorite. It's like Batman picking his favorite criminal lowlife. How do you choose between the Joker, Two Face, the Penguin, and the scum who killed your parents? It's just too painful.
But what the heck, here's a good candidate, and it's also exhibit Q in the case of why I love the Dictionary of American Regional English: peedoodle.
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Word Routes
Bridge That Gap!
Tue Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2010
During President Obama's health care summit last week, Republican House Whip Eric Cantor suffered a bit of a misspeak, saying: "We have a very difficult bridge to gap here." Whoops! It's the gap that needs bridging, of course, not vice versa.
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