by Leslie Sholly | Aug 7, 2014 | books, Catholicism, Education, family
. . . so it stands to reason that I would be excited about teaching Lorelei English this year. And I’m especially excited about this: This book is sort of vintage and sort of not. What do I mean? Well, it’s a reprint of a book that was published in...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 11, 2012 | language, The South
No snarky comments about the title, please! If you aren’t a lover of language and words like I am, you might not realize that all dialects have their own internal grammar and operate according to rules. And I’m going to write from time to time about the...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 16, 2011 | books, Deep Thoughts, English Literature, Georgetown, teenagers
When I was in college, I opted to pursue an Honors degree in English. Part of the requirement for this was to write a sort of mini-thesis that incorporated some concept that one could trace through several different works and then defend before two professors and a...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 31, 2010 | English Literature
A couple of years ago one of my children was studying poetry in middle school English class, learning different types of rhyme/rhythm schemes. The following poem was given as an example of a triolet (a form I had never heard of before). TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM A...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 30, 2010 | Catholicism, music
When I was a freshman at Georgetown, Father von Arx, a history professor, handed back my first paper marked with the following: “May I suggest you try using inclusive language?” Now, I didn’t have the slightest idea what he meant by that, and I...