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Poetry Analysis
A Teacher's Education —
Authority: 420
Every once in a while (okay, more often than not), I’ll complete an assignment I give to my students. I do this for a couple of reasons. One, I want the kids to know that what I’m giving them to do is entirely attainable. I have two jobs (three if you count the yoga teacher gig), two kids, and half of the ...1 day ago -
I Read, I Commented, I Ranted
Writing Material —
Authority: 119
Two Updates: 1. Day before yesterday, I read a post by James Hoff on cac.ophony.org by following a twitter from Mikhail Gershovich . I subsequently commented . (lots of links, I know. seems sort of cool. and sort of annoying, too.) It’s long, and it’s sort of supposed to stand-in for a blog entry today. ...3 days ago -
Carnival of Homeschooling- The NaNoWriMo Edition
Janice Campbell —
Authority: 448
PrefaceWelcome to this hundred-and-umpteenth Carnival of Homeschooling! Because November is National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo or nano), and I’m over 10,000 words into the writing process (and can’t think of anything but writing, writing, and more writing), I thought it would be appropriate to ...4 days ago -
Thoughts on NaNoWriMo and Writing Process
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
The always thoughtful lmarley is teaching a writing workshops for teens next week, and she posted her thoughts about National Novel Writing Month . She asked, "How does this exercise teach you how to learn and master style and craft and pacing? If you dont revise, rewrite, edit, and examine, what ...4 days ago -
Seminar on Teaching Writing: Intro to Research
A Teacher's Education —
Authority: 420
For the last few months, Dingo , O’Mama and I have been zipping emails back and forth through cyberspace as we’ve taught our respective classes. We’ve talked about pretty much everything from grading (Oy! The papers !) to professional development. We’ve found a lot of useful material and invaluable ...6 days ago -
Writing Prompts from The Wellness Community and a DJ
Writing Time —
Authority: 118
A reader asked me if I’d post some of the writing exercises we did at the Wellness Community in Redondo Beach last Saturday. (This is an amazing place that offers free psychological help to anyone whose life has been touched...1 week ago -
Suite101
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
Philip McIntosh wrote a very nice article about how I balance writing and teaching at Suite101. Every once in a while Ill do an interview via e-mail, and then Ill forget about it. The article is often a nice surprise (since Ive never had anyone interview me and then do a hatchet job--knock on wood). Right now Im ...1 week ago -
First Signing!
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
As I reported earlier today , I handed out the chapbooks with students poems and short stories in the Write-a-Book-in-a-Year Club at the high school. The kids were really eager since they had expected the books last week. We celebrated with donuts, cookies and soft drinks. The new wrinkle this year is that I ...1 week ago -
Research Paper
A Teacher's Education —
Authority: 420
*Chili’s note; Grammar Wednesday is being postponed this week; I’ve got bigger work to do* I had an uneven number of students in my morning class, and I didn’t expect that they’d be able to give me a whole lot of productive feedback anyway (yes, I’m being pessimistic, but I’m also a realist), so I ...1 week ago -
To Critique, Or Not to Critique
Notes from the Gefilte Review... —
Authority: 119
Ive been thinking about a recent blog post over at Harriet, John S. OConnors "Commenting On Comments," in which he writes, As a student I suffered through the bleeders (teachers whose pens leaked so much red ink that the page looked like a crime scene) and the teachers who wrote short pithy judgments like “Awk!” ...2 weeks ago -
My ACCESS! Review
Raising Olives —
Authority: 542
A computer program that teaches, evaluates and grades writing? An online writing curricula that teaches and guides students through the writing process, pre-writing and revisions? A hands-off approach to writing that works? My Access! makes these claims. My Access! is an online writing program that gives ...2 weeks ago -
Love Letter to My Students
Writing Time —
Authority: 118
I think the most interesting and honest people in L.A. come to creative writing classes. I never get over how amazing my students are. Right now I’m teaching a class called “Writing the Healing Story” and eighteen people show up...2 weeks ago -
Five Music Lessons for Writers
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
Here is this weeks blog entry for the Write-a-Book-in-a-Year Club at the high school. Its great fun to put together these little essays of craft and the writing life for young writers. The web is filled with so much material to share with them! For this entry, I cruised over to Louise Marleys web site where ...2 weeks ago -
The Inner Critics dressing-up box
This Itch of Writing —
Authority: 108
Your Inner Critics real nature is the anti-writing demon: personify him/her as you will (mine is short and plump, with blue and green scales and a tail: hes well-intentioned, and his intention is to protect me from failure, shame, embarrassment and danger, by stopping me writing). In a coda to Making the Skeleton ...3 weeks ago -
Abducted Journalists, Skullduggery, and the Common Cold
Fire In The Bones —
Authority: 112
I’ve found these two exposé series eminently readable: The Taliban abducted New York Times reporter David Rohde last year. The paper is now running a five-part series about Rohde’s ordeal that gives a unique and important insight into the Taliban subculture. It also reads a lot like a good old-fashioned ...3 weeks ago -
Punctuating Dialogue and an Exercise: part II
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
I did the exercise with my Creative Writing class, and I made all kinds of discoveries with the kids. One is that a conversation that has no intrinsic interest, is completely neutral, banal and dull when written without action, description or thoughts can suddenly become interesting if the surrounding words ...3 weeks ago -
Punctuating Dialogue and an Exercise
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
Both my Creative Writing class and the two sophomore classes are writing short stories this week. I want them to use dialogue, but dialogue is not a skill taught for any other kind of writing except for stories, and I realized I didnt have an exercise that addressed the punctuation problems. So, in my unending ...3 weeks ago -
Celebrating the National Day on Writing: A Revision Gallery
Kate's Book Blog —
Authority: 486
A couple weeks ago, a school principal & teacher in California asked me where she could find pictures of real manuscripts from real authors going through the revision process to share with her students so theyd be more excited about revising. I didnt know of such a resource, but as a teacher, I absolutely loved ...3 weeks ago -
National Day on Writing
A Place for Strangers and Beggars —
Authority: 126
October 20 is the National Day on Writing. This is an event that was created by the National Council of Teachers of English, NCTE, “to help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft.” (Wouldn’t you think that a bunch of composition teachers would choose a more efficient way to name their ...4 weeks ago -
The second simplicity of a bowl of cherries
This Itch of Writing —
Authority: 108
One of the classically irritating things non-writers say to us is "Ive always wanted to write a novel, I just need the the time to sit down." Once were out on bail, most writers still burn to explain that just sitting down isnt all it takes to write a novel. It takes hard work, craft, imagination, a lot of thinking, ...4 weeks ago
