Tag: Lord Grantham

• Girl Power

  It’s mid-third quarter of this school year and I am knee-deep teaching two novels set in England nearly six hundred years apart. The 7th grade is reading Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, the diary of a girl in medieval times during the reign of Edward I, covering the span of one year of her…

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  February 28, 2016

  Essay

  Britain, Catherine Called Birdy, Downton Abbey, Edward I, election year, England, girl power, Great Rebellion, Hillary Clinton, Karen Cushman, Lady Mary, law school, Lord Grantham, LSU, medieval times, middle ages, Newberry Honor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, teaching, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Victorian Era

• Together Forever

  Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is the 28th Valentine’s Day my husband and I have celebrated together and we graced it with a nice day at home and then dinner out at a local French bistro. As usual, our gifts to one another were small tokens marking the day. I received a lovely bouquet of flowers…

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  February 14, 2016

  Essay

  Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, Julian Fellowes, Lady Mary, Lord Grantham, Valentine’s Day

• Obsession: Calvin Klein Has Nothing on Me

  Obsession: ob·ses·sion (əbˈseSHən) noun; plural noun: obsessions; (1) the state of being obsessed with someone or something. Ex: “she cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession”; (2) an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind. Ex: “he was in the grip of an obsession he was powerless to resist”.…

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  July 5, 2015

  Essay

  Anastasia, Aristotle Onassis, British Royal Family, Calvin Klein, Christina O, Downton Abbey, Faberge, Faberge eggs, Jeopardy, JFK, Kathleen Kennedy, Kennedy family, Lord Grantham, Obsession, Peter Carl Faberge, Prince Philip, Romanovs, Rosemary Kennedy, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Trivial Pursuit, Victorian Era