This is a small but mighty book designed to empower teachers and parents in guiding early teens in understanding the potential power of their own writing. The author carefully walks one through many creative ideas for instilling a sense of grammar and structure that will liberate young writers to be masters of their own style with confidence. At a time in our culture when the teaching of grammar is often ignored or done in a dry uninteresting way, this book will help to enliven every composition and grammar class considerably!
Dina Soresi Winter has led a life filled with music, art, theater, education, and a love of Dante. At the age of fourteen, she discovered opera and never recovered from it. After seeing her first opera, La Traviata, at the old Metropolitan Opera in New York City, she began studies with Francesca Pasella, an Italian maestra in the Bronx. Under Ms. Pasella's tutelage, she won several singing awards, one of which took her to Italy, where she made her debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. She was the first twentieth-century "Maria Stuarda" and sang leading roles in major theaters in Germany, Italy, and Holland.