While I was getting all misty-eyed about my years at Chapman Elementary School the other day, I stumbled across another interesting piece of debris in the jumbled, cobwebbed recesses of my memory. Sentence diagrams. There were a few diagrammed sentences sticking out of the boxes where my fourth and fifth grade remembrances are kept. Those…
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When the Audience Does the Work
“On that note, if there are no more questions, please get started on pages 28 through 32 in your workbooks.” It was that sort of thing which brought grumbling and groaning from my students. If there was one thing they hated about Mr. Savelle’s class, it was that point at which I stopped talking, they…