A very special thank you to Jennifer Goyer-Jowett for hosting the March 5-Day Writing Challenge on Ethical ELA. We deeply appreciate your creativity in crafting the inspirations and taking care of our hearts and minds with your words of encouragement. Looking ahead to next month, …
Inspiration Several writers have given us a glimpse of their origins, their words evoking the sounds, smells, touch of the world as they came into being. Use one of these writers as inspiration (Brian Komei Dempsters Origin, Jacqueline Woodson’s opening lines of Brown Girl Dreaming, …
Inspiration Today, we’re raising up voice while considering how people are recognized. To really explore this pairing, we must push toward brutal honesty, explore that which might be dismissed. We must become the voice. Process Using Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “A Palestinian Might Say” as …
Inspiration Once again, we turn to Michelle Burke for inspiration. Today, we will rethink the way we interact with our world. Synesthesia is the result of sensory pathways in the brain stimulating other pathways. Imagine what it’s like to taste sound or smell color, for …
Inspiration This idea comes to us from Michelle Burke through the Poetry Foundation. She writes, “We all have words we love simply because of how they sound.” Today, we will move beyond both the connotation and denotation of words to explore aural textures by creating …