Don't Forget to Write for the Secondary Grades : : 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 11 and up)

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Details (golden), character (immortal), and setting (rural India) / Dave Eggers -- Literary Facebooks / Kathryn Riddle -- Suburban epics / Tom Perrotta -- Busted / William John Bert -- How to write science fiction / Cory Doctorow -- Writing from experience / Stephen Elliott -- Too much money! An ethical writing experience in 10 easy steps / Louanne Johnson -- The talk show circuit / Ellie Kemper -- The first draft is my enemy : revisions / Sarah Vowell -- See you again yesterday : playing with time / Audrey Niffenegger -- Look smart fast : college application essay boot camp / Risa Nye -- Writing about painful things / Phoebe Gloeckner -- Mutant Shakespeare / Kyle Booten -- How to write a one-person show about a historical figure / Kristen Schaal -- Writing for gamers / Tom Bissell -- Humor writing : an exercise in alchemy / Dan Kennedy -- On pining : writing a verse to make them stay / Thao Nguyen -- Adding insult to poetry / Nicholas Decoulos -- Bad writing / Neal Pollack -- Where stories come from / Julie Orringer -- Word karaoke / Matthue Roth -- Tall tales and short stories / Steve Almond -- Welcome to the funhouse : writing funny scenes / Mark O'Donnell.
Voicemails from my future self / Mark Sipowicz -- How short is short? / Vendela Vida -- Comic composition challenge! / Steven Weissman, Jordan Crane -- My boring life / Micah Pilkington -- Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick : how to write a mystery / Julianne Balmain -- Creating characters / Jonathan Ames -- High school confidential : how to write a young-adult novel / Matthue Roth -- Get your haiku on / Daphne Gottlieb -- The essay / Meghan Daum -- The story of me : writing about your life and your family / Jason Roberts -- Meet your protagonist! / Ryan Harty -- All witnesses eventually die : embarrassing stories / Erika Lopez -- Wicked style and how to get it / Micah Pilkington -- President takes Martian bride : writing tabloid fiction / Alvin Orloff -- Lying for fun and profit / Emily Katz -- This class sucks / Kazz Regelman, Andrew Strickman -- Screenwriting / Noah Hawley -- How to write a ghost story / Lisa Brown, Adele Griffin -- 826 unplugged : songwriting / Chris Perdue -- Sportswriting : the life / Sam Silverstein, Jason Turbow -- How to write a fan letter without getting a restraining order / Lisa Lutz -- Exquisite story lines / Jeremy Wilson, Kait Steele -- Soul prowlers : the art of writing newspaper profiles / Rona Marech -- Homestyle : writing about the place where you live / Tom Molanphy -- Agitate! Propagandize! / Julius Diaz Panoringan -- Tasty medicine for writer's block : mindful writing exercises / Brad Wolfe, Rebecca Stern -- High school ink : getting published / Lara Zielin.
Getting your students excited about writing begins with offering projects that are interesting, relevant, and challenging. This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans for mature young writers developed by the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing centers. These lessons cover a myriad of skills (developing characters and voice), interests (novel-writing, song- writing, screenwriting), and even interest levels. (Don't believe us? try out "This Class Sucks" or "My Boring Life" for those especially hard-to-reach writers.) Each unique lesson is written by educators, 826 volunteers, celebrated authors, actors, and writers.--Adapted from back cover.

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