Writing Workshop

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This drawing by M.C. Escher is pretty cool, eh?

Class Handouts:

The Introduction To & Rules For Writer's Workshop for Class 8-A

The Introduction To & Rules For Writer's Workshop for Class 8-D

An idea page called But What Do I Write?
The Requirements for the Final Piece(s) for your Term 1 Writing Piece(s)

The Reasons Sheet to hand in with your pieces, Term 1 (and Term 2, if you choose to complete Writing Workshop, instead of SMART Activities).

The Term 3 Anthology requirements and theme ideas.
A short list of sites that let you find poetry by theme.

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Web Resources
There are so many resources for writers--professional, amateur, beginner, expert--on the Web...

Think about joining the Young Writers' Club.

The Young People's Press (or YPP) is a pretty cool "online news and media service for young people".

Teen Ink is "written by young people for young people," and you can submit writing, photos, and art for possible publication.

Looking for a Rhyming Dictionary?

Want some help with that crossword puzzle? Or your Scrabble game? How about a Pig Latin dictionary? Or a dictionary that will scramble your letters up to form new words? Every kind of dictionary you can imagine is at Langenberg.

Looking for a dictionary/thesaurus/telephone book/CIA Factbook/quotation/atlas? It's at Research It!, with a lot of other stuff, too.

Try Black on White, a site for beginner writers (but not for kids).

Look at all of the resources for professional writers at Writers Write, an Internet writers' magazine.

Submit a poem to the folks at Poetry.com and win cash.

Look at Yahoo's Creative Writing category for a good list of sites for writers of all kinds--from poetry to comic books.

I like some of the tips at Aaron Shepard's Young Author's Page.

Or just try some Brain Food, puzzles for the brain to gnaw on.

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