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Evasive Maneuvers
Orphan Poo and Other Significant Life Events
Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2011
It's difficult to talk about our problems, isn't it? I know I'd rather drink a pitcher of lava than discuss an ounce of truth.
Maybe that's why, when troubles arise, we often bury them in a metric malarkey-load of poppycock, like a student of mine who once alluded to life problem issues: a trifecta of tripe for the ages.
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Lesson Plans
It's Opposite Day
Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2008
In this lesson, your classroom will celebrate "opposite day" by using the VT to match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts. Then, students can use their knowledge of these antonym pairs in a game of "antonyms bingo."
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Word Count
How to Ace a Writing Assessment Test
Wed Sep 13 00:01:00 EDT 2017
A big part of succeeding at a test is knowing how to take it. Given that job testing seems to be growing, and that more than 60 percent of organizations with more than 100 employees do it, here is some advice on how to ace a writing assessment test.
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Word Routes
Two Hundred Years of "Uncle Sam"
Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2012
Americans are approaching an auspicious anniversary: it has been two hundred years since the first known appearance of "Uncle Sam" as an initialistic embodiment of the United States. The earliest example of "Uncle Sam" was found in the December 23, 1812 issue of the Bennington (Vermont) News-Letter. But another town not too far from Bennington — Troy, New York — has maintained that it is the true birthplace of Uncle Sam.
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Blog Excerpts
Looking Back on the Oath Flub
Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2013
President Obama was officially sworn in to a second term by Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday in a private ceremony at the White House. Afterwards, Obama's daughter Sasha told him, "You didn't mess up." But four years ago, the oath didn't go so smoothly, thanks to a misplaced adverb. Ben Zimmer covered the oath flub for his Word Routes column. Read it here: " Taking the Oath of Office... Faithfully."
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Teachers at Work
Student Bloggers
Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2006
Bud Hunt writes the respected blog Bud the Teacher, a website for "inquiry and reflection for better teaching." He puts his ideas for innovative education to work as an English teacher at Olde Columbine High School, an alternative public school in Longmont, Colorado. To Bud, inspiring teaching means bringing Internet technology into the classroom. Bud explains:
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Dog Eared
David Crystal on Language Change
Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2011
The prolific British language writer, David Crystal, has produced another winner: A Little Book of Language (now out in paperback), which Publishers Weekly calls "the perfect primer for anyone interested in the subject." In this excerpt, Crystal explains how language changes, from vocabulary to grammar.
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Backstory
Caridad Ferrer, author of "Adiós to My Old Life"
Sat Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2006
"Write what you know."
How many times as writers have we been told just that? I think it might even be in the initiation packet along with instructions on the secret handshake. But there's no denying that it's a technique that works. Especially for a first book. It gives you a level of comfort that allows you as the writer, the freedom to allow your story to come to life. So for my debut novel for MTV Books, I did just that -- wrote what I knew.
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Blog Du Jour
Obscure Words
Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Word Count
Wrong Turns: Keeping Readers Off the "Garden Path"
Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Sentences have destinations, the place you want your readers to go to absorb the information you're delivering. Sentences that mislead readers are called "garden path" sentences, because they take readers in unexpected directions, the way someone who has been "led down the garden path" has been misled.
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