Exam Review

I can't believe it's already time for exams! This year has flown by. To help you prepare for my exam, here are some websites that are interactive grammar reviews.

OWL exercises

Grammar Bytes

Interactive Quizzes

Grammar Interactive Exercises

ACT Practice

And, hey, if you get bored or tired of practicing all that grammar and need a break, why not read some really cool short stories by a local writer. (FYI-some stories have mature content!)

Billy Collins "Introduction To Poetry"

Introduction To Poetry


I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.