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There is a time for everything, and that includes capitalizing words. If you want to know just when the funding is expected to write, to read the steps below. Once you know the rules, remember. Getting them right will make a lasting impression. Get the bad as well.

Annual contest: write a letter to the author of a poem or book that changed your life. Great writing assignment.

CCSS explanation video of a unit on the Letter

english skills, letter writing, Genre

Download free eBook versions of 37 literary classics like Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre and more! Each eBook download comes as an easy-to-use PDF file that can be printed or projected on your interactive whiteboard.

"Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language brings together historical and contemporary works of art that treat language not merely as a system of communication governed by grammatical rules and assigned meanings, but as a material that can be manipulated with creative freedom, like paint, clay, or any other artistic medium. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first is a historical overview of 20th-century art that experiments with the graphic, sonic, and kinetic possibilities of letters and words. With a few notable exceptions, these works are confined to the two-dimensional parameters of a page. The second section presents an installation of contemporary works, most of which do away with the page; some do away with writing altogether. The artist and poet Emmett Williams observed that "the poem as picture is as old as the hills," citing its beginnings in hieroglyphics,"

Letters and fragments by Emily Dickinson from the collection of Col Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who gave the materials to the Boston Public Library.

The Langston Hughes Papers contain letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the well-known African-American poet.

This is an inspired letter to the editor Conroy wrote in response to an effort to ban Beach Music. Keep it close; read it often. Food for your English teacher soul.

We collect FOUND stuff- love letters, birthday cards, photos, to-do lists, poetry on napkins, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. send us your finds!

The Guardian's series on the great Romantic poets with poems, excerpts from their letters, discussions, and podcasts.

Writing activity to go with chapters 13-14 of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

Excellent idea for next year's 50 yr anniversary

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