Writing our communities : local learning and public culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Winter, Dave, 1967-, Robbins, Sarah
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana, Ill. : Berkeley, Calif. : National Council of Teachers of English ; National Writing Project, [2005]
Subjects:	Communities > Study and teaching > United States > Case studies. Community life > United States > Study and teaching > Case studies. United States > History, Local > Study and teaching > Case studies. English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching. Lesson planning.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introductory activities. Sharing stories to build community / Linda Hadley Stewart
Making the classroom our place / Leslie M. Walker
Single-class-period activities. Take two: reading community photos / Mimi Dyer
Viewfinders: students picturing their communities / Gerri Hajduk
Giving students a penny for their thoughts / Oreather J. Bostick-Morgan
A correspondence between Atlanta students / Dave Winter
Units/major assignments. Setting the stage for historical fiction / Bernadette Lambert
Preserving the city / Bonnie G. Webb
Recovering displaced heritages in multiple contexts / Linda Templeton
Extended research projects. Hometown history: the Hickory Flat Oral History Project / Peggy M. Corbett
My classroom really is a zoo (what we did and what I wish we had done) / Dave Winter
"Writing suburbia" in pictures and print / Sarah Robbins.