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Richard Beach – English Journal, 2017
The author describes two students creating narrative versions of an event from Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" to portray conflicts in characters' interactions to address the issue of sex abuse. Through rewriting events in texts, students gain a sense of how use of dialogue can serve to portray larger underlying tensions between…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Assignments, Perspective Taking, Creative Writing
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Lynne Dozier – English Journal, 2017
The author shows how using art helped a blind student in an AP class and students in Creative and Practical Writing classes improve writing proficiency and critical thinking.
Descriptors: Blindness, Advanced Placement Programs, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction
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Elsie Lindy Olan; Julie A. Pantano – English Journal, 2020
In this article, the authors explore multimodal literacies and how they use literacy contracts and quadrants to help students to examine their identities via writing and the creative arts. A notable outcome of their joint efforts is that when teachers and students transacted with multimodal literacies, they showed value for their personal and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, Creative Writing
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Kyle Vaughn; Robert Kallos – English Journal, 2014
The article describes a collaborative project co-taught by a creative writing teacher and the theater department's technical director that required students to write an original script and perform it as toy theater or shadow theater.
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Theater Arts, Writing Assignments, Scripts
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Kristine E. Pytash – English Journal, 2016
This article draws on the experiences of two young adults, Sean and Jerome, who participated in a writing workshop at a juvenile detention center. The young adults composed screenplays to explore how writing could call on their unique perspectives and life experiences to amplify their beliefs. While some educators emphasize a skills-based…
Descriptors: Film Study, Young Adults, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency
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Dean, Deborah; Warren, Adrienne – English Journal, 2012
Teachers know that the most valuable learning occurs in classrooms where a sense of community exists. Community encourages rich learning because of the interactions among many individuals, not the limited, two-way exchange of ideas or information that is often the case when students fail to form a community. But what makes a community?…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Development, Writing Assignments, Community
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Dean, Deborah M. – English Journal, 2000
Argues that, after students are familiar with the characteristics of the five paragraph essay and the expectations of that genre, they can learn to play with those expectations to create lively writing that reveals more individual voice by mixing in other genres. Argues that such a strategy can teach students to engage in academic writing more…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments, Writing Improvement
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Lardner, Ted; And Others – English Journal, 1996
Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Grade 9, Poetry
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Owen, Trevor – English Journal, 1995
Describes the experience of a teacher and his students on Writers in Electronic Residence (WIER), a computer network available to schools in which students post their creative writings which are then discussed by professional writers, students, and teachers. Makes a case for using computer technology in language arts classes. Discusses some of the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Creative Writing, Online Systems, Poetry
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Mitchell, Diana – English Journal, 1994
Describes how one English teacher stumbled on the idea of having student peer groups write scripts. Outlines a variety of ways that script writing assignments can be made. Advocates having such scripts created by student collaborative groups. (HB)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, English Curriculum
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Perreault, George; And Others – English Journal, 1996
Describes ideas for writing prompts and assignments proposed by three different teachers: (1) writing poems inspired by smells of herbs and spices; (2) writing about past perceptions and feelings after looking at a photograph; and (3) writing a "self-portrait." (TB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Creative Writing, Lesson Plans, Personal Narratives
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Stetson, Maura – English Journal, 1996
Suggests a number of teaching strategies that can be used for the development of authentic voices (instead of institutional, depersonalized voices) in student writing. Focuses on the importance of students' choosing their own topic, developing audience awareness, and making connections between their own lives and literature. (TB)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, Secondary Education
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Matthews, Rene; Mingrone, Maria Conti; Zuidema, Leah A.; Mascia, Elizabeth G.; Panousis, Gracie Conway; Perrin, Robert; Franklin, Yolanda; Downing, Karen; Martin, Terry; Schreck, Mary Kim; Giorgis, Cyndi; Pollak, Judy – English Journal, 1999
Presents 10 short articles written by high school and middle school teachers about specific picture books they recommend and how they use them in their classrooms. Concludes with an extensive list of picture books containing examples of specific literary devices. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Cultural Awareness, English Instruction
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Antzoulis, Vasiliki – English Journal, 2003
Student teaching in New York City on September 11, 2001, forced the author to scrap her carefully planned lessons. Instead, she designed a unit to address the urgent needs of the ninth graders in her care. In this article, the author describes the poetry unit she designed to help students deal with the grieving process and allow them a way to talk…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching, Writing Assignments, Grief