I love this quote:
“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly’, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
~Madeleine L’Engle
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I haven’t participated in Poetry Friday yet, but here goes!
I am a huge fan of e.e. cummings. This is my favorite poem by him.
you shall above all things be glad and young.
For if you’re young,whatever life you wear
it will become you;and if you are glad
whatever’s living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than [...]
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Today we started our novels in class!
We began by really pumping up the idea of writing an entire novel. The kids have been dying to write fiction, so I have been building up the idea of writing a novel. I handed out their YWP NaNoWriMo workbooks, printed off the NaNoWriMo website. [...]
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