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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: A Writers' Notebook

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
Virtually participate in a workshop of four high school teachers led by a renowned author. There are eight topics including "Hiding and Revealing with Language," "Using Sensory Description," and "Writing a Picture of Me".
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Antonyms and Comma Splices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For Dickens' opening to his Tale of Two Cities, he uses one of the longest series of comma splices in the history of literature. Dickens seemingly did this for stylistic effect. In this lesson, students create their own Dickens-like...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Beyond Once Upon a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students are so used to hearing stories that start with the words Once upon a time and when writing their own stories, they often begin with these same words or with variations like One day I. Inspired by the novel Crispin by Avi This...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starters: Intriguing Titles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, an interactive link included to help generate ideas for stories. A button is clicked and a topic is given. In a writer's notebook or journal, each student will use the topic given and develop it. [Requires Adobe...
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January Magazine: Profiles and Interviews: Mario Vargas Llosa

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an in-depth interview with Peruvian writer Vargas Llosa concerning past literary works, political involvement, and role in present literature.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Unlikely Lost and Found

For Students 3rd - 8th
What interesting and unusual items might you write a Lost & Found Ad for? Devote a page in your journal or writer's notebook to write several unusual Lost & Found Ads this year. Use the lost and found writing prompt generator to...
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Curated OER

Page From Blais' Notebook Xiv, 1972 74, With Original Artwork, [Page 56]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the cultural context of Canadian novelist Marie-Clair Blais' writing through fonds held by Library and Archives Canada. These fonds, which are "broken down into three distinct categories" (journals, manuscript notebooks, and...
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Curated OER

Colourful Cover of Book, on the Road No More, 1993

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Curated OER

First Page of Handwritten Letter to Jacques Brault From Alain Grandbois, 1959

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Curated OER

Invitation to a Poetry Reading, Nuit De La Po

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Back of Program for Ubu Roi, 1953, Listing Jacques Brault as Part of the Cast

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Cover of Program for Ubu Roi, Presented at the Coll

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Curated OER

Letter to Jacques Brault From Liza Frulla H

For Students 9th - 10th
The literary work of Canadian novelist, essayist and poet Jacques Brault was no doubt influenced by Brault's "involvement in the cultural life of his time" as well as his "great mind," which is reflected in the collection of notebooks,...
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Curated OER

Watercolour Portrait of Marie Claire Blais by Mary Meigs

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the cultural context of Canadian novelist Marie-Clair Blais' writing through fonds held by Library and Archives Canada. These fonds, which are "broken down into three distinct categories" (journals, manuscript notebooks, and...
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Curated OER

Caricature of Roger Lemelin

For Students 9th - 10th
Popular novelist Roger Lemelin left his audience with a wealth of published and unpublished works, which reveal the diversity of his experiences, his "evolving political, social, and cultural thinking," and his life as "a respected...

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