Character: The Foundation of Narrative

 

Sample five-day lesson plan — A quickie preview of how the residency unfolds over five days. This program is flexible in length and adapts well to any age level from fourth grade up.

 

Sample study guide for teachers — Activities before the residency prepare the students to tune in to character, and post-residency activities are designed to build on the skills the students learn during the residency.

 

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You’re a Poet, and You Know It

 

Sample five-day lesson plan — How students write, revise and perform their poems.

 

Follow-up activities — Students build on what they learn during the residency.

 

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Quick Course for Student Journalists

 

Sample five-day lesson plan — News writing, interviewing, feature writing, headlines, editing, proofreading, ethics. It all happens in a week.

 

Business plan preview — An outline for a business plan to launch a student newspaper. Get the complete plan — along with a Guide for Advisers, How-To handouts for students, and guidance from the voice of experience — as part of my one-week Quick Course for Student Journalists, or in a custom contract for New Student Newspaper Consultation.

 

Newspaper scavenger hunt — Some things for students to search for in a real newspaper. In the process, they will look carefully at the ways a story can be structured, design elements that help tell a story and guide readers, and details that go into putting a publication together.

 

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Some fun with our language

 

Why English is so hard to learn — Examples of bewildering pronunciations and baffling meanings that can befuddle even native English speakers.

 

 

WINC If You Love Books

 

A month of daily activities from Writers & Illustrators of North Carolina to celebrate the many ways reading and writing enrich our lives.