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Alleviating Shakes-fear, Part II


When my young charges entered the room that day, they saw five red balloons stuck to the whiteboard with tape.  Each balloon had taped to it an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper with one of the following phrases printed on it in 100-point font: Shakespeare wrote intellectual “high drama.” The Renaissance was a [...]

Posted 28 June 2010 † damian § Damian's Favorites § English Lit ‡ Comments (0) °

Alleviating Shakes-fear, Part I


I’m proud to announce that this month, my first short story was published by Kaplan Publishing in an anthology entitled The Teachable Moment: Seizing the Instants When Children Learn.  The book was compiled and edited by fellow school psychologist/blogger Dr. Rebecca Branstetter, and is available at finer online and offline purveyors of literature. The title [...]

Posted 24 June 2010 † damian § Damian's Favorites § English Lit ‡ Comments (1) °