Sweenglish

As part of their contracts, students in my English classes have to send at least one of their final revisions "into the world." Th...

Also on my personal blog . Since I keep hearing this on commercials, I thought I'd post a video of the original speech, from Dead Poets ...

Out of context, these notes I put on the board are terrible. I almost feel sorry for my students.

I posted this on my personal blog , but I wanted to post it here too. It's an Apple ad from 1997 (it's also in the movie Jobs ). Thi...

There's a Halloween Film Festival today and students can submit scenes. I like to have a few ready, just for fun. Trailer: Scene...

I ask students to brainstorm some poetry terms/ideas before we discuss poems. Here's a list.