http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/15/krista-ramsey-third-grade-reading-guarantee/6475723/
My article is about a 3rd grade teacher Jeni Ernsthausen who wants to help her students pass the OAA. She doesn't want to be bore them with too much reading and writing but wants to get kids to like to read and be ready for the next grade and even in a job one day.
The line I think is best written is, "It has taken two years of legislating and countless hours of hammering out rules and time lines, but Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee is fully in place this year."(Ramsey) The impact of this quote on the reader is that the reader feels like this is a very fancy and important sentence because Ramsey uses elegant diction like 'legislating' and 'hammering'. The use of these words makes the reader picture Ernsthausen almost literally hammering time lines and knowledge into her student's heads. The sentence is also a good form of elegant syntax.
Krista Ramsey's writing style is a elaborate and well organized style. An example of this from the article above is, "She also has a very good handle on something the state’s not measuring at all: not just if her students can read, but if they will read." (Ramsey)
Some questions I have for Ramsey are:
1: Where do you go or what do you see to get ideas to write about?
2: What kind of education did you receive and where did you go to college?
3: Would you have ever considered being a writing teacher or language arts teacher?
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