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Tonight on the Front Porch, we're kicking it old school. Remember that feeling you'd get as you walked to the front of the classroom, picked up that heavy piece of chalk, and attempted to diagram a sentence in front of the whole class? Well, lots of today's students don't get that privilege anymore, because diagramming seems to be going the way of the Dodo. Tonight we'll talk about the dying art of diagramming sentences and what we'd do without it.

Our guests are:

Kitty Burns Florey, author of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.

Georgia Brussard, Seventh Grade English Teacher at McKelvie Middle School in Bedford.

We'll also hear a profile of American poet and writer Joyce Kilmer, produced by Sarah Elzas.