Wild Child Annotations

Literature and Education Resources for the Wild at Heart

Education

  • How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay

    By now you know how much I love the student essay. But how to go about teaching or writing one? I’m so glad you asked! Traditionally, the first essay a student learns how to write is the five paragraph essay. From there, he or she can learn to write a longer essay by… Read more

  • In Praise of the Essay

    I am very passionate about the essay writing process being an amazing, if not critical, way to engage with the big questions in a good book. Putting structure to thought is to make order of the jumbled up ideas in our own brain, and that is the point (one of the points) of an English… Read more

  • The Novel Cure

    I tend to think reading is the way back. Can it be so simple? Read more