I used to do crazy things on occasion to make stuff memorable - standing on a table over the "corpse" of a twelve-year-old Julius Caesar to do Mark Antony's big speech, for example.

I would have LOVED that (but then I was big into acting and theater at the time); didn't Robin Williams do that in - what was that movie? The movie teachers are always wacky, aren't they? I think more wackiness would be welcome (but now US public school education seems to be all about getting test scores, not learning and thinking. Not about creativity - and thinking requires creativity. A retired teacher I know said she did not envy the new generation of teachers, that the field was nothing like the one she entered.)

but no diagramming ever helped anyone write a better sentence, IMO.

*whew* I feel so much better, thank you! I really used to hate that sort of thing, but even the terminology would elude me which seems strange - I'm a word person. My thesaurus was my friend. (I still had the dictionary and thesaurus I'd had from high school until they got messed up in the fire *sniffle*)

But then I did very well in my Logic class, and that involved "mathematical equations" - B happens after A, that does not mean that A caused B to occur and that sort of thing. IDK