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Deep Observation

Post Published February 12, 2024 by Laura Moran

For this piece of writing, students practiced their observational skills. Students were instructed to to do the following: Choose a place in your home, neighborhood or surrounding area where you ca...
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Ethnographic Interview

Post Published February 10, 2024 by Laura Moran

To conduct an ethnographic interview, students were instructed to do the following: Choose someone who is a part of your everyday life to interview about an aspect of their experience that is relev...
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Memory/Self as Character

Post Published February 9, 2024 by Laura Moran

This piece of writing is designed to prompt students to practice the writing fundamental to "show and not tell." We all love a good character—someone who is complex yet relatable, full of all the...
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Writing Activity: take a character on a believable journey from zero to hero

Post Published April 24, 2021 by Jane Levi

'Tom Green,' a story by 10-year-old Zahra Batteh, is a classic redemption tale. Tom Green, a horrible, spoiled, lazy young man loses all his money and privilege, and through a series of misfortunes a...
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Art Activity: Telling a Story with Multiple Perspectives in a Single Image

Post Published January 9, 2021 by Jane Levi

Emi Le's artwork, "Invisible to Human," is one of those deceptively simple pieces of art that reveals more, and poses more questions, the longer you look at it.
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Weekly Writing Workshop #17, Friday July 24: Writing About Music

Post Published July 29, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our seventeenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contribu...
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Weekly Writing Workshop #15, Friday July 10, 2020: Writing With Alliteration

Post Published July 15, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our fifteenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors...
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Weekly Writing Workshop #14, Friday July 3, 2020: Create a Character Sketch (in writing)

Post Published July 8, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our fourteenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributor...
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Weekly Writing Workshop #13, Friday June 26, 2020: Writing About Someone Reading

Post Published June 30, 2020 by Anya Geist

An update from our thirteenth Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributor...
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Weekly Writing Workshop #11, Friday June 12, 2020: Interweaving Voices & Narratives

Post Published June 16, 2020 by Jane Levi

An update from our eleventh Weekly Writing Workshop! A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors ...
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