Write Beside Them

STUDY GUIDE: Discussion Possibilities for Write Beside Them

ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TEACHING WRITING

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Student samples of writing you can use in class as model texts

• “Of Time and Rivers” by Josh Bossie
• “The House on the Hill” by Elizabeth Howland
• “To Whom It May Concern” by Logan Dwight
• “Blank Checks and Party Hats: Unworthy Charity” by Elizabeth Howland
• “Three Day Trip” by Kayla Lock
• “Last Will and Testament” by anonymous
• “The Perfect—Not-So-Perfect—Woman” by Hattie Perkins
• “14 Black Birch Lane” by Shaina Procopio
• “Chemical Equations” by Sarah Morrison
• "What Boys Are Like” by anonymous
• "Little Pink Shoes” by Marissa
• Williams College Reference Letter by Kathleen Maynard
• “The Garden, Sisterhood, and Growing Up” by Jackie Savard
• “The North Country” by Sean Donovan
• “Collection of a Pianist” by Sarah Chant (a multigenre project)

Penny Kittle writing used in class during the work on this book

• “What Remains” (student focus: Josh chapter)
• “Combing Through” (sentence combining and in writers’ group)
• “What Forty Cents Can Buy You in November” (argument)
• “Warrant Article #7” (argument)
• “High School” (quick writes lesson)
• “Spinning Wheels” (used in narrative unit)
• “Yamhill Street” (used in place narrative unit)
• “une petite fille” (narrative snapshot moment)

REPRODUCIBLE FORMS I USE IN MY WORKSHOP

• Qualities of writing by genre
• Writing Argument Qualities
• Writing Commentary (Op-Ed) Qualities
• Writing Narrative Qualities