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 ...

Is there anyone in your life—you included—who is not comfortable being referred to as “he” or “she”? Write a letter to Cole, founder of the Brown Boi Project, on how you feel about this expansion of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Past winners of our student contests share their best writing moves. By Natalie Proulx How to Teach With the Art and Artifacts in Our New Book, ‘Coming of Age in 2020’ Work by teenagers — photos, ...

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 ...

Great oratory magnifies the lessons of great writing. Written for the ear, memorable speeches tend to use certain rhetorical devices — such as parallelism or emphatic word order — in greater measure ...