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the power of words

A friend of mine a year ago introduced me to the PostSecret website about a year ago last summer. Post Secret is an anonymous project started by artist Frank Warren in 2004. People from all over the country, and even from overseas, send Frank homemade postcards with everything from secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes, and dreams. Frank updates the PostSecret website every Sunday with twenty new secrets each week (PostSecret is actually a blogspot website). Frank's postcards have been featured all across the country, from PostSecret books to the music group All-American Reject's music video "Dirty Little Secret".

When I first saw the PostSecret website, I was almost overwhelmed with the amount of emotion on one single webpage. I now devotedly check the website every Sunday, waiting to see the week's new secrets. Some of the secrets make me smile, often reminding me of myself. Some of the secrets almost bring me to tears, some of the secrets so painful and depressing one cannot help but be empathetic towards the anonymous sender.

I myself have mailed PostSecret two secrets of my own. I felt overwhelmingly calm and at peace when I finally dropped my postcards into the mail slot, the weight of the world finally lifted off my chest.

Maybe you've seen my secrets, and maybe you haven't. But I have given my secrets away, no longer buried inside me causing the pain of a thousand hurts.

for the lazy english student

C'mon students, we all know that you have no motivation to read the books that we assign you in class. So please, at least do your teachers the favor of reading through the Sparknotes version of your book so you don't make yourself look like a total fool in class!

Sparknotes

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are you smarter than shakespeare?

"To quiz, or not to quiz; that is the question"

Since I doubt that most of you took the time to attempt your Shakespeare assignment, here is a website to brush up your Shakespearean skills and earn some extra credit at the same time. Print out the result sheets and give them to me in class for a little extra cushion for those grades of yours!

Bring it on Shakespeare!

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word of the day

Don't give me those looks unless you want me to lower your grade. I'm an English teacher, therefore, I am allowed to have a word of the day. And if you want a few extra points, you'll want it, too!