Ms. Thompson Eighth Grade English

Ms. Tanya Thompson is an Eighth Grade English teacher at The Rice School/La Escuela Rice. She is an outstanding educator who has won many honors including Teacher of the Year.

Figures of Speech - Check out these animations done by two outstanding students: DonBosco Dan and Karina Farek

Ms. Thompson's Favorites

• Writer - William Shakespeare
  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare at MIT
  About William Shakespeare at Wikipedia

• Novel - Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns
  

• Sonet - 72. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" by John Donne

  DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
  Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
  For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
  Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
  From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
  Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
  And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
  Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
  Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
  And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
  And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
  And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
  One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
  And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

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