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Classroom Activities: Poems in the style of Alice Walker
One of my colleagues, Erin Kiley, reports a highly successful activity for teaching writing. Asking students to write a poem “in the style of” another poem teaches them about the form of the language and forces them to choose their … Continue reading
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