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Outstanding Northern Nevada Teachers Share New Lessons
Over 40 New Writing Lessons/Prompts Inspired by Literary Classics and Audio and Video I-Pod Segments
New Lesson Collection #1: Literary Classics In November, the NNWP hosted a new 16-hour inservice class for teachers called "Inspired by the Best: writing lessons based on great excerpts from literature and classical poetry." Twenty-four Northern Nevada teachers participated in demonstration workshop lessons given by seven NNWP Teacher Consultants. On the last night of class, each inservice participant proposed a new lesson that would be considered for posting posted at WritingFix. The result of the workshop are the 29 lessons that can now be accessed at our Literature-Inspired Lesson Collection.
New Collection #2: I-Pod Inspired Lessons In February, working collaboratively with Washoe County's Technology Department and the Teachers of the American History Project, the NNWP sponsored a 16-hour inservice class for twenty-two highly-recommended 4th-12th grade teachers. Each teacher was given the task of creating a writing-across-the-curriculum lesson that creatively made use of an I-Pod as part of the writing process. Participants all received a classroom I-Pod for their lessons, which are still being submitted. The first dozen lessons, however, are posted and ready for you to explore. By June, all twenty-two lessons will be posted at our I-Pod Inspired Lesson Collection. In Fall of 2008, these twenty-two lessons will be featured at inservices across Nevada and at workshops at numerous national conferences.
WritingFix's Philosophy: Interactive Choices Inspire Writers
from Corbett Harrison, WritingFix's webmaster
We all appreciate choices in life. In the classrooms where I learned to write, often I had little or no choice when writing was assigned to me. "Write a report about this topic," "Make sure your essay addresses this theme," and "Follow this format when writing your paragraphs" were mandates I remember from school that stifled me as a writer.
When I became a teacher, I allowed my students to make choices when they selected topics and approaches for papers and assignments. I taught them writing skills, and they applied those skills to the topics that interested them. My classroom of writers thrived in my choice-based, workshop approach to the teaching of writing.
When creating this website for writers, students, and their teachers, I was determined to make choice the theme that made this resource-based website different. As you explore and use WritingFix's resources, watch for the choices each resource offers young writers.
A fine example of one of our interactive, choice-based writing prompts is below: the interactive plot creator, which was one of the first twenty prompts that began WritingFix in 2001.
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