Christina Francine

Sometimes amazing surprises happen. I read my upcoming picture book Special Memory with a release date of Sept. 15th, 2019, to Buffalo...

I think power lies in this poem/song with and without music. However, the addition of music certainly strikes more emotion. Many...

By Jeff Selingo I want to share Jeff’s article because it confirms what I’ve been finding for awhile and share with my students. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-so-many-new-college-graduates-bad-writers-jeff-selingo

Years ago every school in the United States believed cursive writing played a key role in literacy. The idea of not teaching cursive...

First, second and third person writing Work can be written in the first, second or third person. This is who is telling the story. First...

DEFINITION: “The task or structure analysis is to formulate the underlying systems of convention which evaluate cultural objects to have...

DEFINITION: “Reading, explicating, making sense: these are three names given to the activity of ‘interpretation’” (Lentricchia &...

DEFINITION: Culture “has much to do with formal analysis of literary texts because (they) are not merely cultural by virtue of reference...

DEFINITION: “In a figurative sense, a standard of judgement; a criticism/ The term is often extended to mean the accepted list of books of any author, such as Shakespeare” (Haron & Hugh). “Kanon, meaning a reed or rod used as an instrument of measure. The sense of the word important to literary critics first appeared in the fourth century A.D., when ‘canon’ used to signify a list of texts or authors, specifically the books of the Bible and of the early theologians of Christia

DEFINITION: “A term applied to criticism that emphasizes the form of the artwork, with ‘form’ variously construed to mean generic form,...