Follow this week's news coverage from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.Continue reading...
Eleanor H. Porter's classic children's novel of 1913, Pollyanna, tells the story of a plucky orphan who makes a game out of finding the silver lining in any situation no matter how bad. The most famous vocabulary word was not one Porter used, but one coined by readers and fans. To be a pollyanna, or behave in a pollyannaish manner refers to people who try hard to think positively, even unrealistically so.Continue reading...
The Ukraine, e-cigarettes, Afghanistan, and the Vatican...follow this week's news coverage from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.Continue reading...
Thinking of teaching Twelve Years a Slave after Sunday's Oscar win? Here we link to teaching materials and new vocabulary lists to help you bring the story to life.Continue reading...
A Mexican drug lord's arrest, Ukraine's new reality, skinnier U.S. preschoolers, and a trove of marine fossils in Chile... Follow this week's news coverage from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.Continue reading...
Frederick Douglass wrote with fire in his pen, harnessing the specific and powerful language of his day to decry the abomination of slavery in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Continue reading...
Follow news coverage of the Olympics, the minimum wage debate, and Ukraine from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage.Continue reading...