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Class changes likely at Greencastle-Antrim High School
roxann.miller@heraldmail.comStudents at Greencastle-Antrim High School could see changes to their math and English curriculum, if the school board approves the school’s 2012-13 Program of Studies. At Thursday’s Greencastle-Antrim School Board meeting, Principal Edward...Tags: Mathematics, Teaching and Learning, Literature, Students, Arts and Culture
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Writers - any plans for the weekend?
Writers -- If you're planning on checking out the MyTime Women's Show at the Hampton Roads Convention Center tomorrow (Sat., Jan. 12), I'd love to meet you and chat about writing. Also, if you're interested in having a new release featured in Writers'...
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Toni Morrison celebrates life with friends
Several weeks ago, I wrote about seeing award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni speak at TNCC. During that talk, Giovanni told us she was looking forward to an upcoming event at Virginia Tech to honor her friend, celebrated author Toni Morrison. The event,...Tags: Toni Morrison, Poetry, Maya Angelou
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The Question: What was your favorite book as a child?
"'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if...Tags: Fiction, Rudyard Kipling, Literature, Doris Lessing, Chicago Tribune
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An interview with Amandeep Sandhu
When local author Rosalia Scalia visited India, she was able to sit down with Amandeep Sandhu, author of "Sepia Leaves." She was kind enough to recount her meeting for Read Street. We'll break her missive into a parts, starting with her description of the...Tags: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie), Journalism, Journalism, Cadence Design Systems Incorporated, Jack Nicholson
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: Books, Roland Park, American Academy of Pediatrics, Books and Magazines, Literature
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Maryland has a new go-to role on television — Washington
For almost two decades, Baltimore was mainly seen by the TV industry as a place to make shows about cops and crime. But now, the city is looking more like the nation's capital to some of Hollywood's top producers.
On Thursday, Gov. Martin O'Malley...Tags: Scream 4 (movie), Sales, NBC (tv network), Architecture, Television
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Interest in writer Jane Austen grows
Have you been to a major bookstore recently? Perhaps you've noticed the book “The Jane Austen Book Club.” There are innumerable novels about Mr. Darcy, the male protagonist of “Pride and Prejudice.” And let's not forget “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,”...Tags: Courtship, Discrimination, Movies, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Comedy night headliner specializes in 'friendly ghoulishness'
Two comedians will perform Saturday night Down Under at the Ramada Convention Center, 2727 Sixth Ave. S.E. Telling jokes will be Don Reese and Paul Wiese. Reese is an Iowa native. “Take a young boy born in the Midwest, feed him a steady diet of...Tags: Stand-up Comedy, Comedy (genre), Literature, Stand-up Comedy, Arts and Culture
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Bookmark: Essay collections show diversity, creativity
He loved lists, so let's make one in his honor. The late John Leonard was brilliant, witty, earnest, brave, erudite, stubborn, poetic and totally smitten by literature. I never met him, but I can swear to the foregoing because I read his work for many...Tags: Julia Keller, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Literature, Chicago Tribune
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Holocaust survivor shares story at NSU in Aberdeen
In June 1944, when Robert Fisch was 19 years old, he was sent to a work camp in German-occupied Hungarybecause he was Jewish. At the camp, he was forced to work until he was transferred to a concentration camp in Germanyin January 1945. There, he...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Massacres, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Literature, Students
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Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?
It was, if recollection is accurate, in the fifth grade that I got my first thoroughgoing instruction in English grammar and usage. My fifth- and sixth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Jessie Perkins, and my seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs....Tags: Literature, Ohio University, Arts and Culture
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