Broughton English I

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words - not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long - and controversial - history in U.S. schools.

Blues Classroom Addresses the following themes in the National Curriculum Standards for Follow up this poem by listening to Hughes recite his poem "One Way Ticket." After listening, discuss what this poem suggests about conditions in the South. What solution is offered for the problems that blacks must deal with in the South?

Could the story of Romeo and Juliet be true?

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Happy endings are famously rare in literature. We turn to great books for emotional and ethical complexity, and broad-scale resolution cheats our sense of what real life is like.

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Short podcasts that introduce greek/latin word parts

Competition where poets offer poems in honor of the Olympics

Three descriptive paragraphs to teach students how to use setting details to create a specific mood.

Acronym cartoon