Category: From the Archive
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A Native Music
Writing the city in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Within Words
Making students at home in the language of literature.
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Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
How does one teach creative writing?
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Beowulf Rides the Range
Using the Nature Imagery in Old and Middle English Poetry
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The Pen Has Become the Character
How Creative Writing Creates Us
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Writing Standards
Finding One’s Way With Words
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Ruby
On Not Editing Children
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The Physicality of Poetry
Excerpts from a tape recording of the Joshua Ringel Memorial Lecture.
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Arrival Diaries
Teaching Students to Write Arrival Narratives
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Visual Poems
It’s no surprise that abstract visual images can lead students to written poetry.
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The Sky is the Limit: E.E Cummings in the Classroom
Teaching "The Sky Was Candy" to first-grade students.
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Ekphrastic Poetry
Entering and giving voice to works of art.
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First Do No Harm: Helping Students Write about Difficult Topics
Read Helen Frost's advice on how to deal with sensitive material in the classroom.
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Some Greek Girls
On teaching Sappho and Praxilla.