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DePoy, Phillip – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1990
Describes three poetry-writing exercises that encourage students to break from linear, normal thinking patterns: answering questions that have no answers; describing impossible objects; and contemplating infinity. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models
Peck, Carol F.; Lastort, Joanne – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1990
Describes several exercises to help students change their perspectives when writing poetry. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Poetry, Student Writing Models
Simon, John Oliver – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1989
Describes a unique exchange program between Mexico and California in which poets go to the foreign country to teach poetry writing, with local poets, to elementary school children. Provides samples of exercises in poetry writing and excerpts of children's poetry, translated from Spanish into English. (KEH)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Creative Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Salinger, Wendy – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1989
Discusses a pilot project in New York City that affords high school students the opportunity to participate in their community's literary life and to have live encounters with contemporary writers. Provides samples of writing by students involved in the program. (KEH)
Descriptors: Authors, English Curriculum, Fiction, Literature Appreciation
