For your enjoyment, the following is a shortened version of this year’s Robert Burns Memorial, the keynote speech and toast at Saint Gregory’s annual Burns Supper. I lang hae thought, my youthfu’ friend, A something to have sent you, Tho’ it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento: But how the subject-theme […]
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Burns Banquet
01
Feb 2011
Category: Burns, Dangling, It Is What It Is, Jerry, Pedantriactivity
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An Arthurian Ballad
10
Jan 2011
After we read Pyle’s first collection of Arthurian tales, I had the students write a ballad on any of the stories from that book. With a little guidance on form and an example poem to imitate, one boy was able to come up with this in study hall. Sir Pellias and the Red Knight By […]
reading emerson
15
Dec 2010
After my grandmother passed away last year, my family picked through her eclectic library. I found an old Ralph Waldo Emerson book entitled ESSAYS: first series. Inside this book was an old note, presumably from one of her friends: Enjoyed the “Essays” tho must admit I didn’t wade into all of them as I find […]
Category: emerson, It Is What It Is, Poetry
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