Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Details

Additional Authors

• Winter, Dave, 1967-
• Robbins, Sarah

Description

xxv, 110 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• 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

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Local history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-104).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Maynard 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.

ISBN

• 0814159206 (pbk)
• 9780814159200 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2004021097

OCLC

• 56560694
• SCSB-11100152

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library