Re: LM_NET Digest - 3 Jun 1999 - Special issue

[Sarah Applegate <sappleg1@MICKEY.ESD113.WEDNET.EDU>]

I am jealous!  I have taught CW for 4 years and love it.  I divide the
time into 3 sections- memoir, short fiction and poetry.  For memoir, I
use Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron as
inspiration and a source for ideas.  For short fiction, I have used What
if? and a great book called Fast Fiction by Allen.  My favorite unit is
always poetry and we watch Il Postino, write lots of odes and praise
poems and be sure to go on a walk, find an object that "speaks" to you
and write a poem about why this object needs you the writer.  I have
also had lots of success with used 10-15 minute writes using Goldberg's
principles of writing practice:
Don't Think
Keep your hand moving
You are free to write the worst junk in america
Don't worry about punctuation, grammar, etc
Go for the jugular

Good luck.  Use pictures as prompts, and create a class collection at
the end.  They love it.
Sarah Applegate
River Ridge High School
Librarian




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