Are you willing and brave enough to stand up against injustice? Describe what you would do, and how your actions might make a difference. Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s ...
Describe how you would feel if a place that defines you was threatened to be destroyed or taken away. What would you do? Would you fight to save it? Students will read and respond to the YES! Magazine ...
Usually, Elizabeth Karp enjoys writing. But this year, she said, was a little different. As the first four-time winner of Mankato’s Laws of Life essay contest, Karp has been a regular attendee at the ...
Students will be asked to come to class with a draft title of their upcoming research essay assignment. First, go over the basics of essay titles. What is the point of a title? What do titles ...
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...
February 16, 2024 • Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House visits with bestselling writer David Arnold to talk about creating vivid characterizations in the premiere episode of “Writing Lessons”, a ...
To introduce students to close reading poetry and using writing to understand reading; to prepare them to write a 4-6 page essay on a single poem Students have read selected poems and the chapter on ...
On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound ...