Entries by dpogreba

Weekly Reads, Poetry, and Art for 20 February 2015

This week, we’ve got the coolest/creepiest sculpture in the Louvre, stories about George Washington and morality, a sentence by , and more. Enjoy! Weekly Reads Why it’s brave to think like a coward – Chris Walsh – – “‘Fear,’ Beamish went on to say, ‘is perfectly natural. It comes to all people. The man who […]

The Things They Carried Test

The test over The Things They Carried will be tomorrow and include these questions. On the test, you will have to answer three of four questions about the novel and one question of rhetorical analysis from a passage. The Greek philosopher and playwright Aeschylus said, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Tim O’Brien’s novel, The […]

ACT Common Errors

Interested in doing a little ACT work before the big test this spring? Check out these resources: ACT Question of the Day Top 10 Grammar Rules for ACT

Carson Analysis Essay

Your first analysis essay,  an analysis of a passage by Rachel Carson, is located here. You can review the handout on writing an analysis essay here and might even take a peek at this sample paragraph if you are struggling with it. Topic Sentence Sample Carson argues (lines 1-32) that humans have opened up an all-out […]