Burning Questions
What are the alternatives for the 5 paragraph essay?
How do we build confidence in our student's writing abilities?
For our group, we each read a different book; Writing Down the Bones, The Art of Memoir and Why They Can't Write. Our research started with a want to move away from the soul sucking 5 paragraph essay, and into sustainable writing practices. Each of us developed our own questions and research threads as we conferenced each week about our mentor texts.
Natalie Goldberg
Mary Karr
John Warner