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"Education for Leisure" is a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy which explores the mind of a person who is planning to commit a murder. [1] Until 2008 the poem was studied at GCSE level in England and Wales as part of the AQA Anthology, a collection of poems by modern poets such as Duffy and Seamus Heaney.
Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...
A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher, for thirty-six years he has been on a mission to show how poetry can take on a bigger role within the teaching of reading and the ...
It is especially remembered for its two final lines: "The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun." The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his ...
"After Apple-Picking" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. It was published in 1914 in North of Boston , Frost's second poetry collection. [ 1 ] The poem, 42 lines in length, does not strictly follow a particular form (instead consisting of mixed iambs), nor does it follow a standard rhyme scheme.
Talk about a parting shot -- A Florida schoolteacher received a loaded gun in an end-of-year appreciation gift from one of her students. It seems the .22-caliber handgun was buried at the bottom ...
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a book of short essays by American minister and author Robert Fulghum.It was first published in 1986. The title of the book is taken from the first essay in the volume, in which Fulghum lists lessons normally learned in American kindergarten classrooms and explains how the world would be improved if adults adhered to the same basic rules ...
A Freedom of Information request by BBC Wales has suggested children as young as Year 2 - aged six and seven - have been found with a blade on school premises during the past five full academic ...