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From: NEA Today
Date: 19970501
Author:Anonymous

A short video that I showed my jurior level college prep class noted that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's second wife died when her light summer dress caught fire after hot sealing wax dripped on it.

When the clip ended, one of my student's asked, "That was an awful way to die-but why did they have hot wax on the ceiling?"

Brenda Abbott

Bailey, Colorado

My students were assighned to write a sentence using their new vocabulary words. For the word "hinge," one student wrote, "I went to the biggwest hionge in town."

The definition that I'd given them? "Hinge: a swinging joint."

Carol Hoover

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