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Punctuation Rules

Punctuation Rules

May 9, 2018
Transitions

Transitions

December 15, 2015
How To Write Slam Poetry

How To Write Slam Poetry

May 20, 2015
How To Write an Essay Conclusion

How To Write an Essay Conclusion

May 8, 2015
Literary Analysis Paragraph Rubric

Literary Analysis Paragraph Rubric

April 26, 2015
Sentence Building Rubric

Sentence Building Rubric

April 25, 2015
Active Reading Rubric

Active Reading Rubric

April 25, 2015
Haiku Techniques

Haiku Techniques

April 25, 2015
How To Write a Sonnet

How To Write a Sonnet

April 24, 2015
Personal Reading Response Rubric

Personal Reading Response Rubric

April 24, 2015
Fitz-Style Blog Entry Rubric

Fitz-Style Blog Entry Rubric

April 24, 2015
Literary Analysis Essay Rubric

Literary Analysis Essay Rubric

April 24, 2015
Personal Memoir Rubric

Personal Memoir Rubric

April 24, 2015
Narrative Essay Rubric

Narrative Essay Rubric

April 24, 2015
Narrative Paragraph Rubric

Narrative Paragraph Rubric

April 24, 2015
Book Review

Book Review

April 24, 2015
How To Write Narrative Essays

How To Write Narrative Essays

April 21, 2015
How to Write Literary Essays

How to Write Literary Essays

April 21, 2015
How To Create Effective Paragraphs

How To Create Effective Paragraphs

April 21, 2015
How To Write Great Opening Paragraphs

How To Write Great Opening Paragraphs

April 20, 2015

The Crafted Word Blog

 

Reflections on the Art of Writing Well…

Remember the Time

by | June 23, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 25 Comments

Write what you know. ~Mark Twain      I don’t always practice what I preach, especially when it comes to the simple, unaffected, and ordinary “journal entry.” Much of my reticence towards the casual...
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Remote Learning 2.0

by | June 22, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

Explore, Assess, Reflect & Rethink How to move on to a better tomorrow...      For most of us teachers, our first crash course in remote learning is done, and the wise work now is to separate...
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The Farmer, the Weaver & The Space Traveler 

by | June 22, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

     Words matter. Words carefully crafted and artfully expressed  matter infinitely more. There is something compelling in a turn of phrase well-timed, arresting image juxtaposed on arresting...
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Swing, dammit, swing…

by | June 18, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog | 19 Comments

What’s so important about this literary analysis paragraph thing? Maybe you won’t be spending your life analyzing literature. Maybe this is some academic exercise that is ultimately no big deal in...
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Embrace the Beast

by | June 16, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

The Rules of Punctuation If you don’t use it, you lose it... ~Fitz What do you really need to learn? What teaching and what practice will help you learn what you “really need to learn”...
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Ten Tips for a Great Narrative Essay

by | June 14, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

So much depends
 on the red wheelbarrow 
 glazed with rain water 
beside the white chickens.
 -William Carlos Williams   It was funto be swimming and clambering around with my kids yesterday in...
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Writing a Metacognition

by | June 12, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

If we don’t learn from what we do, we learn little of real value. If we don’t make the time to explore, reflect and rethink our ways of doing things, we will never grow, evolve and reach our greatest potential or tap into the possibilities in our lives.

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I have been here before

by | June 9, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog | 0 Comments

Trying to pull a final day Back into the night, execute Some stay of time, Some way to wrap The fabric of Summer Around the balky, frame of Fall, sloughing My skin, unable to stop This reptilian...
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Grading

by | June 8, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog, Workshops | 0 Comments

"Don't let school interfere with your education..."~Mark Twain      Grading is that part of a teacher's life that should bring some kind of solace to our work. No doubt, it is an...
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The Concord Town Dump

by | June 6, 2020 | Essays, The Crafted Word Blog | 0 Comments

When I was a kid it was the dump. Every Saturday morning my father and I would pile a week’s worth of trash into the back of our Plymouth Fury station wagon and head the to the Concord town dump....
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Summer Blogging

Summer Blogging

May 20, 2018
Copy Editing & Proofreading

Copy Editing & Proofreading

May 12, 2018
The Writer’s Toolbox

The Writer’s Toolbox

April 17, 2015
Private Tutoring

Private Tutoring

April 16, 2015

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