Although I have used this project every Third Quarter in my creative writing classes, I have adapted it on a smaller scale for my English 12 classes. In the latter, the students choose a literary period, an author or poet, or a theme and create a magazine. For the English classes, the written selections should be 75% of an author(s) work(s) and 25% original students' work where they follow the criteria of the period, the author's style or show their understanding of the theme. I suggest that this be 8 or 12 pages instead of 16 pages. When used in the creative writing classes, the percentages for the written work should be 75% original and 25% other writers.
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Because one of my goals is to prove that studying literature, writing, vocabulary and grammar can be fun, I have created a number of innovative lessons for these strands of learning. Last year I collected many of them and compiled them in a book called Setting the Pace, for English teachers and college education students. Currently, the book is in revision; the title has been changed to NOVEL IDEAS, and it focuses on teaching literature as well as writing about literature. Veteran teachers and those aspiring to the field can utilize the hands on units and ideas for teaching while honing their skills on how to pace a lesson and to connect it to their state's standards of learning. I am a recently retired (2011) English teacher in the Fairfax County Virginia public school system, where I taught English 12, Journalism 1,2,3 & 4 and Creative Writing 1, 2, & 3. As a result of the Teacher Performance Evaluation instituted by the county, I was awarded the prestigious Career Two Exemplary level status three times. Besides the public high school venue, my teaching background includes an alternative secondary school for behaviorally disadvantaged adolescents, an adolescent psychiatric hospital, and a boys' reform school. Proud of my choice to be an educator, I have always hated the cliche, "Those that can, do; those that can't teach." Through my writing and my role modeling in the classroom, I show that not only do I teach, but I also practice what I preach.
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