Teaching Figurative Language with Mentor Poems

I was conferring with one of my students in Writing Workshop yesterday and quickly found, as I researched, my compliment (meaningful line breaks while drafting) and teaching point (using figurative language, specifically similes). I started to demonstrate what similes were by reviewing the concept of comparing two things with the words like or as. [...]

“Memoir Mondays” Inspiration

Is there a place you have been eating at for years… by yourself or with family? Is it a place you come back to for comfort food again and again? Have you celebrated special occasions at this place or is it just a local hangout?

Consider indulging your writing (and maybe your palette [...]

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