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DB in NJ
02-23-2008, 04:05 PM
My students will be in 7th - 12th grades. I've got so many ideas going through my brain that I can't seem to focus and settle on just one plan.

If you had 8 weeks to teach an essay writing class, how would you go about doing it? What materials would you use? If you had a child going to the class, what would you expect them to be able to do at the end of it?

Focus, I must focus....

Beth in Central TX
02-23-2008, 09:24 PM
The first resource that came to my mind is The Lively Art of Writing by Lucile Vaughan Payne. You probably couldn't teach through the whole book in an 8-week co-op class though.