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The Dash Hunt: Injecting Variety into Writing
Born from a pile of generally well-written but boring essays, The Dash Hunt is a fun way to remind students about sentence variety and to promote the development of voice.
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Just Write: It’ll Be Ok
BY: LIZ KEIPER This year, one of my teacher-goals was to get my students to write more. If you’re anything like past-self me, when you’re in the middle of a novel unit, you get so wrapped up in during-reading and between-reading activities that you wake up one morning and say, Read more…
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16 Personalities: More Than Just a Writing Activity
BY: LIZ KEIPER I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. -Elizabeth Edwards This year, my New School Year Resolution was to assign more writing to my students while at the same time increasing their positive attributions towards writing and their view of themselves as writers. Wait, Read more…
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Learning to Talk the Talk
By Toni Poling My students come to me as juniors in AP English Language and I walk with them through the complex and fascinating vocabulary that is the study of rhetoric. Together we tackle non-fiction pieces on climate change, school choice, social justice, basic human rights, and the documents that Read more…