by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 19 On Tuesday, St. Patrick’s Day, in the spirit of the Irish, I decided we would write limericks. “We” refers to my daughter’s three youngest children, teenagers who school at home, and me. I teach their writing...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 16 In celebration of the Irish, I share this limerick slice. Limericks first appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century and were popularized by Edward Lear in the 19th century. They were combined and sung as traditional...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 3 It had been a slow, uneventful day. Just rain. Lots of rain. At times it just poured straight down, like it was coming from a gigantic tub faucet. Visibility was significantly reduced. I could barely make out the neighbor’s...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday It was May 3rd and I was leisurely reading all things poetry shared by my #PoetryFriday friends. That is when I came across Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’s DMC challenge for May on Today’s Little Ditty. Michelle asked us to write a poem giving...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom, Literacy |
Poetry Friday It’s Friday morning and I’m sitting in a hotel room, being a bit lazy after two very full days of presenting staff development workshops focusing on writing. I’m so glad that two months ago I booked an afternoon departure so I could...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
March Slice of Life No. 5. Tell a story in six words, that’s the task. The earth moved, but we stayed.–I wrote this in 2016 after a 7.8 earthquake struck my son’s city in Ecuador. {Notice the juxtaposition. See my tips below.} Portoviejo,...
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