Some Language Links

Text Box: Not that you’re trying to make every scene a great scene, but you try not to annoy the audience. If I can make about five good scenes and not annoy the audience, it’s an awfully good picture. Howard Hawks, American film director (1896-1977) Favorite sentences (other sources)                                                                  

Favorite sentences (student writing)

Some They Say / I Say templates

Wax on, wax off

A prescriptivist perspective

Shibboleth

Acocella, “The English Wars”

Steven Pinker’s reply to Acocella

NCTE 1974 Resolution on Students’ Rights to Their Own Language

            (explanation of the resolution)

 

Erasmus’s De Copia (1512) (2)  (a modern example)

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (Wired Magazine)

Grady uses a template