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I've been teaching since 2008. While my greatest love is high school, I've taught middle school, college, adults, and senior citizens, varying across all levels of privilege, interest, and ability. From Chicago to Eugene OR, I've worked in public schools, alternative schools, in summer camp settings, in prisons, and when I went back to school for my MFA in fiction, I taught college as well.
In my offerings here, I'm bringing my two masters--writing, and teaching--together, to provide fabulous writing resources for you and your students.
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World Building: Creative Writing Generative Exercises
How do authors create worlds so real it feels like readers can jump into them? Inspire your students to think like authors, and deeply consider their worlds and the way that they impact character behavior. Move beyond physical descriptions to include culture, government, as well as the characters' personal world and their closest relationships. You can use these: During Planning --To generate ideas before students embark on a novel writing or short story writing project,During Revision --To fl
4th - 12th
Creative Writing, Literature, Writing
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
W.4.3
, W.4.5
, W.4.10
+28
Bundle--Find Your Character in the Intersections: Differentiated Mini-Unit
Do your students write one dimensional characters? Do they tend read characters that way as well? Inspired by Kimberlé Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality, this group of lesson plans guides students to create characters by thinking about the ways their identities intersect. By talking through this in a fictional context, it removes some of the pressure on students' sharing, while still opening the door to students' broader understanding of themselves and the world they live in. If you like
9th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.9-10.2
, RI.11-12.1
, W.9-10.3a
+7
Figurative Language Practice & Prompt with Mentor Text
This seven sentence writing prompt with mentor text examples will help your students write more vibrantly! Metaphor, Simile, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Oxymoron, and more. Includes: a match-making activity (you can use it to help with higher order thinking, if you don't show them the definitions slide until later, otherwise you can use it to check for comprehension), and a quick and easy writing prompt that will have them write in seven different figurative modes. Flexible tools! You can cut out the
9th - 12th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
W.9-10.3c
, W.11-12.3c
, L.9-10.5
+3
What, How, and Why! Multi-Purpose Analysis Tools
Two very easy to use tools for teaching high level analysis put in very simple, accessible terms! A What, How, & Why chart (which bring students up Bloom's Taxonomy from Summary to Analysis to Synthesis), coupled with a sheet for writing that includes an easy to use checklist/rubric. Fabulous for transparency and trust building so everyone's on the same page with expectations. Use with art, with photography, with sculpture, or any kind of writing, from fiction, to non-fiction, and plays, t
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RL.9-10.5
, RL.11-12.4
, RL.11-12.5
+22
Poetry: Close Reading + Writing Prompt | Cortland Gilliam's "Almost"
Great writing combines its "what" with its "how" to create a meaningful "why." This lesson plan, based on the poem, "Almost" by Cortland Gilliam does this dance beautifully. The language and contents are simple, but the artistry is anything but! Suitable for middle school-college. Includes: A copy of the poem (provided with the author's permission) with ample space for annotation, with instructions to read multiple times, and thought-provoking questions for guidance. A tool you can use to hel
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Close Reading, Creative Writing, Poetry
CCSS
RL.9-10.2
, RL.9-10.3
, W.9-10.4
+8
Opening Lines & Story Introductions with Mentor Text by Ndinda Kioko
We always tell our students to “begin with a hook,” “hook your reader,” “make your introductions exciting,” or “make people want to keep reading.” But what does that actually mean? It’s so abstract that students and professionals alike struggle! This product comes to your rescue! When in doubt, imitation is such a great way to learn how to write. This lesson plan tackles one author’s answer to these questions. Using an excerpt from award winning author, Ndinda Kioko's "Little Jamaica," publishe
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Close Reading, Creative Writing, Grammar
CCSS
RL.9-10.4
, RL.11-12.4
, W.9-10.3a
+6
Goals, Obstacles, and Conflicts | Character Analysis or Creation Worksheets
Deepen your students' understanding of character motivation!These three worksheets can be used with characters in any book as an analysis tool, or for students own writing projects. Are your students participating in NaNoWriMo? This is a great tool to get them thinking about their characters as multidimensional beings, and can help them begin to situate them in the larger world they're creating. It can also open up conversations about their own goals and obstacles. Combine these with my free
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
RL.9-10.3
, RL.11-12.2
Intersectionality: Differentiated Readings with Graphic Org
Need a one page reading on intersectionality to explain the concept to your students? This will do the trick. Do you have a large array of reading levels in your room? Meet all of their needs. You can group your students according to reading level and have them read it in small groups. Each version of the reading has the same number of paragraphs, and the concepts are the same in each, so when you go to discuss it full class, everyone can be "on the same page." Included: 3 differentiated pages.
9th - 12th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Social Studies
Multipurpose Intersectionality Worksheet
Help your students craft compelling, intersectional characters! Or use this to get to know each other during the first week of school, and begin crafting a vulnerable, open space for deep conversations all year round. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the word “intersectionality” in 1989 as a legal term regarding the overlap of systems of oppression. It is most often cited in relation to social justice, politics, and the need for an inclusive form of feminism and anti-racism that understands the way the
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Civics, English Language Arts
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Experience
I've been teaching since 2008. While my greatest love is high school, I've taught middle school, college, adults, and senior citizens, varying across all levels of privilege, interest, and ability. From Chicago to Eugene OR, I've worked in public schools, alternative schools, in summer camp settings, in prisons, and when I went back to school for my MFA in fiction, I taught college as well.
In my offerings here, I'm bringing my two masters--writing, and teaching--together, to provide fabulous writing resources for you and your students.
Teaching style
I believe in nurturing burgeoning artists’ voices. I believe this is indispensable if we are going to combat the violence and systemic racism in this nation, and develop a kinder, more empathetic public.
When students write creatively, they're integrating what they learn into their own experience and imaginations. By embodying their learning, it becomes relevant, rather than disconnected from their lives. In the process, they'll add writing tools to their belts that they'll be able to use in their rhetorical and expositional assignments as well.
I create warm, safe spaces that are also intensely rigorous. I use discussions, and inquiry, and movement. In the materials I provide here, we'll read very closely, We'll write a ton. We'll read each other’s work. We'll learn to critique and give feed back. We'll have a great time along the way.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Published Author | Golden Apple Scholar of Illinois | Nelson Aldgren Award, Runner Up for “The Lobster’s Daughter” | J. Scott Clark Award for Excellence in Creative Writing, Northwestern University Department of English | Pledge Scholarship | J.G. Nolan Scholarship | Edwin T Beadle Scholarship | Golden Apple Foundation Scholarship | Standing Tall Foundation Scholarship | Liberty Bank Scholarship | Mather Alumni Scholarship | Mather Zeolites Scholarship
My own education history
University of Oregon, Masters of Fine Arts, Fiction | National Louis University, Masters of Arts in Teaching
• Type 7 Certification: Secondary Education
• Content Area: English
• Endorsements: Middle School |
Northwestern University, Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Fiction + Comparative Literature
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Teach Write Now is dedicated to providing curriculum that brings a current, and diverse body of reading material into your classroom--both in terms of author identity and style.
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