Innovative lessons plans and ideas for teaching creative writing as well as samples of student writing resulting from the lessons.
Demonstrate, by contrast, what good poetry is
Students review the function of roots as taught in their science lessons and connect them to metaphor, their newly learned literary device
Gold meets a class in the midst of individual research projects and demonstrates how to creatively organize and present scientific research.
Using Greek Myths to Stimulate Student Poems
Needs and tradeoffs.
Empowering families through collaborative writing.
Manifestos and the Argumentative Essay
Here is home.
Personal Philosophy and the Power of Hello
Susanna Horng offers a fresh way to introduce young writers to the pleasures of revision.
Empathy and the persona poem.
Details and Autobiography
Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
A net for new words
Lesson Plan
A lesson plan by Sarah Dohrmann.
A Favorite Writing Assignment
The New York Writers Coalition Helps Develop both Voice and Audience for those Who Have Neither
Using Langston Hughes's "Black Misery"
It’s no surprise that abstract visual images can lead students to written poetry.
On teaching Sappho and Praxilla.