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Bookworm: A memoir of childhood reading
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by British journalist and author Lucy Mangan is an autobiography with a special focus on the books that she read as a child, and is now reading to her own young son. Lucy Mangan … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Bookworm, children's reading, Education, Lucy Mangan, Reading, school, writing
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The Writing Life
In his book on the writing process, Draft No. 4, and his series of articles on the writing process for New Yorker magazine, journalist and Princeton University writing teacher John McPhee describes: how he once lay on his back on … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, John McPhee, New Yorker, writing
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Is there such a thing as correct English anyway?
Sam Leith is fond of the quotation “When you go fishing, you bait the hook with what the fish likes, not with what you like.” In his new book Write to the Point, Leith begins by jumping into a controversial … Continue reading
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Tagged Sam Leith, school, teaching, writing
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Up-Hill – a poem by Christina Rossetti
Up-Hill Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for … Continue reading
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From Poem to Story – using a poem as a catalyst for writing.
Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. (from The Dream Keeper and Other Poems … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge University Press, ELT, Poetry
Tagged dreams, Langston Hughes, poetry lesson, poetry to story, writing
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The Henry Brothers' Jim Jam Slam 