Word of the Day: ameliorate
Today's holiday: Unidentified, but I can tell you that January is apparently California Dried Plum Digestive Month. Yay for prunes!
(And many, many thanks to JM Bell for the AWESOME bubble wrap calendar. There was much rejoicing all day long.)
Gifted English II: A continuation of our compare/contrast analysis of The Speeches, followed by a brief screening of Acts II and III of the play.
APees: After a journal entry that is thematically related to Wordsworth's poem, we will begin analysis of "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," his landmark lyric poem--written entirely in blank verse, and entirely as a draft--about a return visit to a special place. I love this poem and hope you love it, too; one line in particular has always resonated with me: "The best parts of a good man's life/The little, nameless, unnumbered acts of kindness/And of love." Wow.
