Excerpts from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and from John Fante's Ask the Dust, as well as a variety of primary source documents provide the background for an examination of the migrant experience from 1920-1945.

Young grammarians are often confused by clauses, especially the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Clarify the confusion with a color-coded activity that clearly defines and illustrates the differences and then gives...

After learning the main ideas of the Decadent movement, students work in small groups to read and translate poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire using basic etymology skills. They then read the accurate English translations to see...

Rules and examples for words ending in the suffixes -able and -ible.

Need a quick reference for when to use who, that or which? This article offers a concise explanation.

This resource presents the easiest errors to make when writing. Use this resource to help you proof your work.

Certain word pairs present problems for many speakers and writers such as amount versus number, continuous versus continually, and so on. This three-part article identifies problematic word pairs and clarifies their proper use.

This is the second in three articles that demonstrates such confusing word pairs as "continuous," which means unbroken, and "continually," which describes something that occurs repeatedly over a period of time.

Use this list to help you find the correct usage of nine different pairs of commonly misused words.