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Here you will find information about me, grade level content and resources, details about my classroom library, and some other odds and ends.

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"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
Poetry, Carl Phillips, Poets.org
"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips
Poetry, Carl Phillips, Poets.org

Once loyal to a cruel master,
the dog moves like a man who
not so long ago weighed a lot less

Poetry, Carl Phillips, Poets.org
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CoralCast 0404 - Speech Regulation in Games
CoralCast 0404 - Speech Regulation in Games
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Syntax Has Feelings Too
What Lydon is Thinking, Reading
Syntax Has Feelings Too
What Lydon is Thinking, Reading

In "The River Nemunas," Anthony Doerr captures what it means to be numb and alone in the world not in the quality of his words, but in their quantity. 

What Lydon is Thinking, Reading
The Radical Use of a Comma by Phillis Wheatley
Writing, What Lydon is Thinking
The Radical Use of a Comma by Phillis Wheatley
Writing, What Lydon is Thinking

Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American woman, and in the poem "On Being Brought from African to America" she engages in a quiet, cultural rebellion with the use of a single comma.

Writing, What Lydon is Thinking
The Day My Beard Died
What Lydon is Thinking
The Day My Beard Died
What Lydon is Thinking

My Beard Died. This is his story.

What Lydon is Thinking
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R & J Character At Starbucks
Unit 1 Exam Corrections
Reading Log 11/12 - 12/2
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Braided Essay - Intended Layout
Lit Device Short Story Quiz 3
Braided Essay - DONE

How Would Lydon Do It?

An English, Teachy Blog
Analysis of "Sweat" (How I...)

This is how I would analyze how Hurston's "Sweat" is a tribute to ordinary African Americans and a departure from some of the ideal of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Writing a Theme and Passage Analysis Essay (How I...)

This is how I would write the your final written assessment (in arguably too much detail).

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