Middle school students may have outgrown the desire to color Leprechauns and rainbows on St. Patrick’s Day, but they enjoy celebrating the holiday in their own way. It is a wonderful opportunity to activate the imagination with writing prompts and writing activities designed with the Middle School Student in mind. Grades 6-8 (Middle School) Writing ...
The Haitian proverb, “Tout moun se moun,” we’re all human beings, radiates throughout and shakes the very core of the nonfiction work by Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder 80). Paul Farmer, an extraordinary medical anthropologist who travels the world healing the poorest and most helpless of people, is brought to life in a simplistic ...
As a personal fan of short stories, I started reading “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce with a positive attitude. What kept me captivated was Bierce’s writing style. Throughout the entire story, I couldn’t help but notice the short story is great enough with the plot, but worth reading alone to experience ...
Edgar Allen Poe is truly a remarkable writer. For this reason, I chose to analyze his short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”. The nature of the story itself is unique, with a great narrative perspective and an equally impressive sense of accuracy of portraying a madman. The plot, chain of events, and simplicity of the ...
“Dragon Tears” is not a novel for the timid. Neither is it for those searching for an easy read. You see, this horror novel by Dean Koontz, is slow paced and at times difficult to focus on. In it, you do find great and somewhat poetically descriptive writing. Yet sadly, the author concentrates too much ...
Havelock Ellis, a British psychologist and author, comments, “Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” Despite historically being known as a recluse, American poet Emily Dickinson certainly did not reject life, in fact, pain and death are two topics that she often wrote about. In the literary ...
In elementary school, the teacher taught students to utilize adjectives and adverbs generously in their writing. If you look at the average grade school student’s story, you will find something a lot like this: The thin, blonde woman talked loudly and angrily with the tall, nice man. This sentence is correct grammatically, but it reads ...