I'm not much of one to write anything special for the holidays. In fact, the very thought causes me to freeze up. I thought about posting a regular old personal post this morning, but it didn't quite seem appropriate.
Instead, in honor of the Classical Conversations Practicum I shall be attending next week, I offer you this assignment from Leigh Bortins. I thought it was a perfectly lovely idea, because I'm a grammar nerd. I also don't mind telling you that I don't actually remember how to diagram a sentence. I appreciate the teaching link she provided, and I hope to check it out, if I can ever get all my work done. Everything seems to be piling up in the month of July.
Declare and Diagram: the first line of The Declaration of Independence. Reading just that first line makes me want to grab up one of our many copies of The Federalist Papers and set to reading. Yes, the language can sometimes be a little tricky to untangle in the 21st century, but it is rich and beautiful, and begs to be read aloud.
Psst: These are both the same link, so you don't have to click on both of them. You've been warned.
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Sometime in the evening I had this vivid memory of trying to read *The Federalist Papers* on a plane ride with my Dad to Mexico City. Would have been in 1994 or 1995, (sadly) my one and only experience in another country.
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