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Marcus Amaker

  • Post author:Art Powers
  • Post published:August 21, 2019
  • Post category:ECM Partners/Literary Arts

Figurative language, performance and poetry with Charleston's first poet laureate. Students will write poems and focus on the use of figurative language, rhyme scheme and elements of poetry. Special requirements:…

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Read more about the article 123 Mango Tree – Nadine Johnson

123 Mango Tree – Nadine Johnson

  • Post author:Art Powers
  • Post published:July 15, 2018
  • Post category:ECM Partners/Literary Arts

Students will experience how writers and illustrators create books. Each student will write and illustrate a short story. During the writing process, students will partner up and provide each other…

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Read more about the article Poetry with Marjory Wentworth

Poetry with Marjory Wentworth

  • Post author:Art Powers
  • Post published:October 21, 2017
  • Post category:ECM Partners/Literary Arts

Whether it’s writing poems from passages in a science textbook or using social studies lessons to inspire student poems, Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth believes that everything belongs in a poem…

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Read more about the article Becoming a Published Author  –  Julian Simmons

Becoming a Published Author – Julian Simmons

  • Post author:Art Powers
  • Post published:June 24, 2017
  • Post category:ECM Partners/Literary Arts

Program Description: This cross-curriculum workshop teaches students tools for writing, editing, publishing, and marketing their own stories. Becoming a published author teaches students fun ways to release the stories from…

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Read more about the article Lorna Roberts

Lorna Roberts

  • Post author:Susan Antonelli
  • Post published:August 3, 2016
  • Post category:ECM Partners/Literary Arts/Music/Music

Music is used to engage students in writing and songwriting while studying diverse topics, including science, social studies, and language arts.

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