The Yankee Cannonball
I stood in a long line waiting with Pipo for his first ever ride on a roller coaster. Things that move in strange ways are a big deal to him. When he first came to live with us, he was eight years old and had never even been in a two story house. On his second day...
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Read... The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever. It is worth the expense of...
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
https://youtu.be/v3JaosE-gZE The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownVirgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train'Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks againIn the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely aliveBy May the tenth, Richmond had...
Masters of War
https://youtu.be/h2mabTnMHe8 Masters of War~Bob DylanCome you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build all the bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your...
WW Fenn Week
It is hard to imagine a more perfect weekend for memorizing your WW Fenn piece!The class presentations will start on Thursday, [Monday for ninth grade] so please be ready. Those with shorter pieces will be asked to go first.By now you should have posted your WW Fenn...
Iambic Dimeter Poem
Iambic DimeterWhen you combine two iambic feet, (ba-booms) you can create poetry in iambic dimeter. These poems are relatively rare, but are extremely effective for a short observational poem.NOTE: sometimes the rhythm is more ba-ba-boom [unstressed-unstressed...
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