Your students can prevent words like succisive, welmish or alogotrophy from fading into obscurity by adopting them through the Save the Words web site. When students visit Save the Words, they are confronted with a wall of lonely, unused words crying out for new homes. Literally. They cry out. Really. Try it.
As the Save the [...]
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How to Adopt an Antediluvian Word
April 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Lessons, Teaching, Writing
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Shakespeare Teaches the Birds and the Bees with Sonnet 2
March 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Lessons, Literature, Teaching
I was amused this morning when I read a tweet from helloSchmoop comparing Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 to a parent giving their child “the talk.”
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Can You Write a Story Without Using the Letter E?
August 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · Lessons, Writing
A lipogram is a type of word play whereby an author creates a piece of writing with a missing letter. One of the most famous lipograms is Ernest Vincent Wright’s 50,000 word story, Gadsby, which omits the letter E.
For a fun way to engage students in writing and help them with the trait of word [...]
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