A Few Crooked Words
Tag Archives: Grammar
James Bond and the Past Perfect: teaching grammar through poems
As I was organizing things for the first class of the year yesterday, I found a gem from the archives. We had been learning about the past perfect tense and how weird it is to try to write in it … Continue reading
Posted in Exercises, Language, Poetry
Tagged children, Creativity, Education, Grammar, Homeschooling, poetry, Seattle, teaching poetry
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Ze is awesome: adventures with gender-neutral pronouns
English is missing a word. (Well, probably many words.) However, this is a really useful word: it’s a gender-neutral singular pronoun for people. In the good-old-boy days, they just said “he” but that’s not cool anymore, nor should it be. … Continue reading
Posted in Language
Tagged American culture, Education, gender neutral pronouns, Grammar, Homeschooling, Language, Seattle, teaching poetry, Teaching writing, vocabulary
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