Teaching the Anti-Essay
eBook - ePub

Teaching the Anti-Essay

18 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prompts for the English Classroom

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eBook - ePub

Teaching the Anti-Essay

18 Creative Nonfiction Essay Prompts for the English Classroom

About this book

Teaching the Anti-Essay helps secondary school English Language Arts (ELA) teachers introduce literary nonfiction and creative nonfiction essay writing to their students, demonstrating how writing is a fun and engaging activity where students can see tremendous value in "thinking on paper." Meaningful essays are also, by default, analytical.

This book offers English teachers and their students 18 different essay prompts that challenge student writers to take calculated risks on paper, leading to essays that students can write and want to write, allowing them to add something new to the conversation in the process. Each chapter explores a unique essay prompt, along with rationale, the targeted skills, teacher models, student models, and reflections. The book is intended to be a tool for change in the English classroom at large by motivating students through tried and tested prompts, demonstrating that anyone can write like a journalist, a professional blogger, a creative nonfiction essayist, becoming an author with one's own voice and style.

This is a great resource for in-service middle school and high school ELA teachers, and beyond.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040403396

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements Page
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Support Material
  9. Contents
  10. Meet the Author
  11. Author’s Note: Teaching the Anti-Essay
  12. Preface by Toby Rosewater, Managing Sports Editor, The Amherst Student
  13. Acknowledgments and Shout-Outs
  14. Introduction by James Treadway, CEO of GrowthWise Tutoring
  15. 1. The Wax Pack: Breaking Wax
  16. 2. The Philosophy of You: Your Students Are Deeper than You Think
  17. 3. Consider the Lobster
  18. 4. When the Hitmakers Knock, You Answer
  19. 5. The Unicorn College Essay
  20. 6. Emily’s Way and How to Wrangle a Guest Speaker
  21. 7. My Lipogram: The no “E” paper
  22. 8. The Usual Suspects: A Dialogue Essay from England with Love
  23. 9. The Living Artists Literary Research Paper
  24. 10. Nice to Meet You and Goodbye: 7 Intros and 7 Outros
  25. 11. Ranting and Raving: Why Complaining Is Good for Your Students
  26. 12. Dave’s Way: The Humor Essay a la Dave Barry
  27. 13. The Poetry Forgery Unit: How Imitation Breeds Greatness
  28. 14. The Feature Article: Journalism Your Classroom Needs
  29. 15. The Autopsy of You: When Students Metacognate Good Things Happen
  30. 16. Ebert’s Way: Lessons from a Late-Great Film Critic
  31. 17. The Video Essay Is Not Just for YouTubers
  32. 18. The Interrogative Mood: Questions Only, No Answers
  33. 19. Grading Essays Means Never Having to Be Alone Again