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		<title>Making Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We should make another movie on the computer, Mom. That was fun.&#8221;  Logan reminded me this morning of a major project we did some time ago that involved scripting a story and making a photo slideshow: &#8216;The Baby Who Ate the World!&#8221; A 12&#8243; foam model of the planet Earth and Logan&#8217;s little brother, Luke,  inspired us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Words to Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first grade teacher, Miss Mary Bodi, spent a lot of time bringing out the writer in  her students. Regularly throughout the year, she asked us to choose a picture from a file. In it were magazine advertisements, clipped comics, and other images she’d collected. One-by-one, were called to sit next to her at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sentence A Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your writers-in-training resist sitting for a fifteen-minute jounal entry or other writing exercise, you might have some success weaning them into writing “a sentence a day.”   This can be done on a computer, or handwritten in a notebook. I prefer the latter, since flipping to the story will maintain the quick and easy nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaf Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fall fell:  so that&#8217;s it for the leaf poetry&#8221;                                                            from AR Ammons, Called into Play Autumn can be  especially inspirational to writers. Change is often an impetus for creativity, and big transformations occur as we begin the creep toward winter. To while away a Saturday morning last week, we made some leaf prints on heavy-bond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Spark!: Walk the Plank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, started by John Baur and Mark Summers, aka Cap&#8217;n Slappy and Ol&#8217; Chumbucket aka eight years ago. Here&#8217;s a treasure chest of ideas for pirate-themed writing: Ask your crew to make up their own pirate names and to describe what they look like, what adventures they&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We The People: Constitution Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a weekday, and for most of us, that means that we are juggling work, homework, practices, and who knows what else.  It is rare that the kids do any additional writing at home. But, today is Constitution Day, the anniversary of the signing of the nation&#8217;s founding document, and as is every day&#8211;an opportunity for writing!  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extra! Extra! Write All About It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only time I ever got into trouble in junior high was related to an &#8220;underground&#8221; newspaper I wrote and distributed using an old typewriter, carbons, and the Xerox machine at the local library. I recall that my mom was called as I sat on one side of the principal&#8217;s desk. I was frozen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Spark! Abcedarian Sentences</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a curious definition in The Superior Person&#8217;s Book of Words : the Abecadarian Insult, which is defined as follows: &#8220;Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.&#8221; The Translation follows: &#8220;Sir, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observation and Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It Takes A Long Time to See A Flower Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe once said this when referring to the observation skills necessary to paint the intricate details of flowers in large scale. I like to apply it to the practice of writing description. Rather than really taking the time to observe and note details, my college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Spark! Fan Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;don&#8217;t you like to write letters? I do because it&#8217;s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you&#8217;ve done something.&#8221;  ~Ernest Hemingway In this month&#8217;s issue of Family Fun magazine is a letter from a woman who prompted her son&#8217;s interest in writing by encouraging him to write to his favorite [...]]]></description>
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