Reading provides access to so much and one can always get better at it. To write well is important. It need not be beautiful or masterful but it should make what you are trying to express clear.
The following posts work as studies in language arts so that learners can engage with the presented material from a variety of ways. Those that want can use the comments for discussion. Forums are also in works so it can be grouped more effectively.
- Practicing from masters.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a standard for a style of writing that one need not be and do to be great but it is an excellent one to study for elevating one’s adaptability with language. I can not remember where I read it, perhaps it is in Death in the Afternoon, a book that… - Insanity: An Open Letter to America
Kelsea Comb first published as a start to her blog. She is a person of many things, poet and writer are two. She wrote this letter in the days after the election for the 46th president. November 04, 2020 (Excuse punctuation, just started writing) I would like to start with a poem by Countee Cullen.… - Nate the Great
Nathanial Arrington Crawford killed himself a few weeks back. Most of y’all have no idea who he was or is, really. I know I don’t. I was talking with a dear friend and fellow teacher about it and neither of us was shocked by the happening. Saddened, hurt, or otherwise unsure of what to do…