Mining For Nuggets
"Writing is the gateway to success in school and beyond. Writing helps students read, solve problems, and understand concepts in every part of the curriculum."
National Writing Project Improving Writing and Learning in the Nations Schools. Pamphlet 2007
"Students follow their own routes of growing outward. Articulating stories, meeting people, reading local authors and visiting places... encourages a shaping of education they find valuable.
Brooke, Robert. Rural Voices, A Geography of Stories. 2004, p.62
Introduction
The National Writing Project is for Teachers of writing. Value is placed on professional development that has benefits for students and colleagues of participating teachers.
FIRST WRITING RESPONSE: "Horace, Morris And Especially Delores."
If I were to form a club, both boys and girls would be invited. We would all eat chocolate, we would all like the Oakland Raiders, and we would talk about the topics that I decided we would talk about.
Why? I can appreciate a diversity of voices, and so I would encourage all kinds and types of people-- men/women, black/white, athiests/Christians-- anyone who will act civilly abd keep the conversation lively.
FIRST POEM FRAGMENT WRITTEN IN CLASS:
I am the noxious weed,
Soul Killer of child and adult alike,
Collector of the dubious and dreadful
That all the Expresso on Earth won't erase