The Blackboard Jungle

days spent beating back the seeds of doubt

Thursday, May 05, 2005

They're fourteen years old.

How does Macbeth's language show his fear and desperation to cling onto power?

If they get this wrong, they go into the next year group with a governmental label of functionally illiterate.

How does my language, here, express impotent fury at a system mired in dread futility for a fourteen year old still unable to write in sentences?