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Sucking it up

Every once in a while I decide that I should drop out of Viva Scriva, the better to focus on my job as a first-year middle school teacher, meet the needs of my three kids, spend time exercising,...

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Best intentions

I started the summer with the best intentions:  write every day, learn to play guitar, read all the YA books that have been piling up on my nightstand, and take my kids on a cross-country road trip....

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

This month each of my thirty seventh-grade students selected a novel from roughly 10 options to read and discuss in small groups.   I’m amazed each time I do this because, regardless of the novels I...

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What, exactly, do you want?

A few weeks ago, I happened across a blog post on character goals and motivations that nagged me like a just-below-the-skin’s-surface splinter – but in a good way.  I’d pick at it a little, forget it...

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33 RPM

              Watch me write All night – Outta sight! Pure delight.   Whoops a slip – What a dip. Why so flip?   Lost my way, So they say. Write some more Another day.

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To Read or Not to Read

To read or not to read?  That is the question that nips at the heels of aspiring writers. Some years ago while carpooling home from a crit group meeting, I told Scriva Addie about this book I’d been...

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Please, Sir, I want some more…

Teach the classics or teach what students want to read?  Too often this is the dilemma of a middle school teacher.  The classics are rife with all the teachable elements we want our students to know...

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