Video
July 6, 2009
From IWT's Weeklong Workshops
A morning workshop discussion
"Creative Nonfiction: Telling the Truth" led by Nancy Kline Piore
Upcoming Programs
Fictions: Memory & Imagination
October 15– October 17, 2010Poetry: Reading, Writing, Teaching
October 15– October 17, 2010Writing & Thinking
October 15– October 17, 2010Adventure and Nature: Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse” and John Krakauer’s Into Thin Air
November 5, 2010Engaging a Difficult Text: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
November 5, 2010Seeing through Animals’ Eyes: The Poetry of Emerson, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Michael Le Johnson
November 5, 2010Teaching Poetry/Teaching History: Walt Whitman and Harryette Mullen
November 5, 2010Teaching the Holocaust through Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
November 5, 2010The Literary Use of Dialect: A New Reading of John Steinbeck'sThe Grapes of Wrath
November 5, 2010The Quest for Learning: J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Ursula LeGuin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
November 5, 2010Writing Letters: Alice Walker’s Color Purple and 19th-Century Women’s Letters
November 5, 2010New! Writing to Read Young Adult Memoir
December 3– December 5, 2010Teaching the Academic Paper
December 3– December 5, 2010Writing to Learn
December 3– December 5, 2010Serious Play: Teaching Through Poetry
April 15, 2011
Announcements
Writing from the Inside Out
Submissions due October 15, 2010!More Info
Fall & Winter 2010 WORKHOPS
Registration for upcoming workshops is now available!More Info
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Mark Your Calendar!
March 18, 2011
Curriculum Conversation: Rethinking How We Teach Canonical Texts through Writing:
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet: More Than a Love Story? (full description coming soon!)
April 15, 2011
Conference: Serious Play: Teaching through Poetry (full description coming soon!)
IWT publishes a collection of essays on the teaching of writing:
Writing-Based TeachingEssential Practices and Enduring Questions
(SUNY Press, November 2009)
Teresa Vilardi and Mary Chang, editors
with essays by Margaret (Ranny) Bledsoe, Alfred Guy Jr., Alice Lesnick, Sharon Marshall, Carley Moore, Ray Peterson, Nicole Wallack, and Robert Whittemore