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31.1.11

A Personal Narrative Exercise

Todd Finley, writing for Edutopia talks about how he inspires and motivates his high school students to be better writers.

"...To disrupt the over-use of [a] mono-strategy [for writing], my job as teacher is to grab up perfectionist writers by the hair and drop them into the drafting process where speed, not caution, is prized. This motivation helped me devise the following personal narrative writing exercise. It’s called Fever Dream...."

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writing, high school,