Reviving The Essay: How To Teach Structure Without Formula.
Gretchen Bernabei’s intuitive approach to teaching the personal essay has revolutionized the way teachers teach the essay and transformed how students respond to writing prompts. In this dynamic 45 minute DVD video you will get a personal introduction to these power strategies from Gretchen herself and learn how to immediately implement them into your classroom.
If reading school essays puts you to sleep, Gretchen Bernabei's REVIVING THE ESSAY will wake up your students'writing in ways even they never dreamed of. This exciting new resource for students and teachers provides 30 delightful lessons and activities that will awaken all of the senses, challenging and cajoling, stirring and stimulating even the most reluctant writer.
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Gretchen Bernabei has taught middle school and high school for 28 years. An author and an educator, Gretchen's other books include Why We Must Run with Scissors: Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing (2001, Discover Writing Press), Reviving the Essay: How to Teach Structure Without Formula (2005, Discover Writing Press), Lightning in a Bottle (2003, Trail of Breadcrumbs), Sparklers: High Scoring.
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Lesson Overview: Whether you like the Twilight saga or not, you have to admit that author Stephanie Meyers is a skilled writer. In this lesson, students will read and analyze a climactic scene from Twilight in order to identify the various elements used by the author to create suspense. They will then have two text-inspired choices as their writing task: “creating their own climactic scene.
Gretchen Bernabei is the author of The Story of My Thinking (4.44 avg rating, 68 ratings, 6 reviews, published 2012), Reviving the Essay (4.32 avg rating.