Recently, I bought the entire collection of novels from Penguin's publishing wing entitled "Point of View" --these are novels dealing head-on with to... read more
Jay Asher's YA novel, Thirteen Reasons Why,
provides an opportunity to open the discussion of suicide, with
ourselves...our friends...our familie... read more
Yesterday my 3rd period class experienced a Skype chat with literary
agent, Victoria Marini of the Gelfman Schneider literary agency in New
York ... read more
Through an author chat on Skype, YA author Irene Latham helped
reinforce our ongoing conversations and lessons on revision. Especially
for ... read more
My 8th grade creative writing classes are studying the use of strong
nouns and verbs, and I asked YA author Mitali Perkins to build our
recent au... read more
After reading Kelly Gallagher's Readicide this week, a metaphor of shopping for a house has been working itself out in my head. I wondered how ... read more
Added by Sharon J. Washington on Dec 16, 2011 at 1:03pm
This week, I went to the screening of the documentary Louder than a Bomb, about a high school poetry slam and was blown away by the quality of the st... read more
