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Flexing Our Rhyming Muscles
Introducing the ghazal.
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The Slowest Writing in the World
We use a needle and thread to learn to write.
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Write Your Own Lord of the Flies with Dyslexia
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What Does It Mean to Live Ethically? Teaching the Climate Crisis in Writing Classrooms
A conversation with Emily Raboteau.
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Recovery Through Writing
Reducing the stigma of mental illness.
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How Long Peace Takes
Writing about world issues using the work of Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Is This Poetry?
Teaching Ron Padgett’s poem “Nothing in That Drawer.”
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Gathering the Split Halves of Yourself
Poetic form found in recipes and the everyday.
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My English Is a Skeleton Key
Using metaphor to understand our relationship to language.
Reprise: National Poetry Month
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Jayne Cortez and the Joyful Anti-Ode
Jayne Cortez’s poem “These New York City Pigeons” inspires student poetry.
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Writing a Contrapuntal Poem
Tools gathered from even-odd project elevators.
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Origin Story Lesson Plan
Using “Afro-Latina” by Elizabeth Acevedo to ground students in their multiple identities and lived experiences.
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