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  1. Weekly Worksheet

     Let the Debates Begin!
    Tue Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    The presidential debates begin this week, and this week’s worksheet gets students to evaluate the language and words that shape the focus for each presidential and vice presidential candidate.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Poetry a Day
    Sat Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2007
    "Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives," The Library of Congress's Poetry 180 website proclaims. It's designed to for students to read a poem a day for every one of the 180 school days of a year. But you don't have to be a student to enjoy this selection of poems, of course. Click here to see the complete list of poems.

  3. Weekly Worksheet

     Avoiding the False Cognate Trap
    Tue Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Have you ever tried to figure out a word in another language because you recognized part of the word from your home language, and then you found out you were on the wrong track? Sounds like you might have been caught in a false cognate trap, the subject of this week's worksheet.

  4. Lesson Plans

     Vocabulary Bursting with Energy
    Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2009
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to review key vocabulary associated with the sources and properties of energy?

  5. Candlepower

     Ads That Rhyme: Past Their Prime?
    Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    For about four decades in the 20th century, rhyme ruled American advertising. The period between the 1940s and the 1970s was the golden age of ad jingles and rhyming slogans. Today, ads rarely incorporate verse — and when they do appear, it's often awkwardly executed, derivative, or barely recognizable as rhyme. What happened?

  6. Teachers at Work

     It's Only Rock and Roll
    Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker has a simple lesson for her students: Don't learn grammar from rock stars. Here Margaret explains how rock and roll lyrics with non-standard English constructions can often lead students of grammar astray.

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Elevating Our Evasive Ecosystem
    Thu Aug 19 09:00:00 EDT 2021
    This just in — the latest nominee for euphemism of the year!

  8. Language Lounge

     Twinned Sources Meet Novel Target
    Thu Jul 07 09:00:00 EDT 2022
    How much help does a metaphor need? It depends on what you want your audience to take away from it.

  9. Word Routes

     Plundering the History of "Pirate"
    Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    The recent hijacking of the Maersk Alabama cargo ship off the coast of Somalia serves as a chilling reminder that seagoing pirates continue to threaten international waters, from the Gulf of Aden to the Straits of Malacca. For many of us, it's peculiar to see the word pirate making headlines, since it seems so out of place in the 21st century — at least outside of Disney theme parks.

  10. Word Count

     Don't Let Your Modifiers Dangle!
    Mon May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    In English, modifiers go next to the thing they modify. Dangling and misplaced modifiers are challenging because they can be difficult to spot. Often the meaning is clear enough that readers pass right over them. That doesn't mean, of course, that we shouldn't fix them.
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