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Title Writing our communities : local learning and public culture / edited by Dave Winter, Sarah Robbins.

Imprint Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English ; Berkeley, Calif. : National Writing Project, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  307.071 W939 2005    ---  Available
Description xxv, 110 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-104).
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 -- 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 / Dave Winter -- "Writing Suburbia" in Pictures and Print / Sarah Robbins.
Subject Community -- Study and teaching -- Case studies.
Community life -- Study and teaching -- Case studies.
United States -- History, Local -- Study and teaching -- Case studies.
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
Lesson planning.
Added Author Winter, Dave, 1967-
Robbins, Sarah.
ISBN 0814159206 (pbk)

 
    
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