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In case you were wondering, there was a point to yesterday’s posting (about teaching reluctant adolescents to write poetry). I had been talking to my next-door neighbour about my work with downtown teenagers, who are in the news again for all the wrong reasons. He was particularly interested in the poetry-teaching, because he was yet another of the countless millions who have been turned off poetry and literature in general by a succession of English teachers preaching that Shakespeare is Fun. (He can be, in small doses. Of Milton, the least said, soonest mended!) Emma, too had been listening in and commenting on her own experiences at school. Later, not entirely as a joke, I asked her to have a go, jotting down some thoughts on subjects I would suggest - obviously with the Blog in mind. I will post her efforts for the next day or so. It will be the first written contributions Emma has made to the Blog.
In case you were wondering, there was a point to yesterday’s posting (about teaching reluctant adolescents to write poetry). I had been talking to my next-door neighbour about my work with downtown teenagers, who are in the news again for all the wrong reasons. He was particularly interested in the poetry-teaching, because he was yet another of the countless millions who have been turned off poetry and literature in general by a succession of English teachers preaching that Shakespeare is Fun. (He can be, in small doses. Of Milton, the least said, soonest mended!) Emma, too had been listening in and commenting on her own experiences at school. Later, not entirely as a joke, I asked her to have a go, jotting down some thoughts on subjects I would suggest - obviously with the Blog in mind. I will post her efforts for the next day or so. It will be the first written contributions Emma has made to the Blog.
