Another Hurricane Evac Adventure Story: Hurricane Helene, 2024

Helene is thus far believed to have claimed 220 lives and this number may continue to grow as communities take stock and this is only the human body count. Read More

NADA/UCLA Film Project #2

This film is a larger work compiled of 12 smaller works: Ethnographic stories from Master practitioners, Clinicians, mental health professionals, etc. Read More

Finally Finished It!

Stories are filled with conflicts, confrontations, challenges, struggles, successes,
failures, resolutions, revelations, changes, transitions, evolutions, highs and lows, etc.
These can be both internal, external, and more interestingly, a mix of both. Read More

The Research Paper Course

When you research a topic, you make yourself an expert on that topic and all the directly linked topics and subtopics. You learn about what influences and impacts it and about what it influences and impacts. Then you report and share your findings. Read More

Great Writing Made Easy: A Middle School Writing Workshop on Words & Word Choice

Choose words packed with detail that add to the image and move the story forward. Not all words add to the image, and more words slow the story down. Fewer words
speed it up. Read More

Designing the AP College Readiness Creative Writing Curriculum

This page is under construction The first few lessons of this course are similar to the first few lessons in the academic writing course. This cannot be helped since in all writing regardless of type, there are certain basic rules that must be understood from the beginning. However, there are subtle differences in how those… Read More

3rd Edition Writer’s Guide: What makes writing great?

“Written for the learners so they can teach themselves and learn on their own when there isn’t anyone around to work with them. It encourages skill acquisition, self-teaching, and independent learning while also introducing the use of a reference or guide book. Independence creates confidence which leads to greater motivation of and investment from the learner in their learning.” Read More

Stetser Elementary 2014 Thematic Study Writing Project

“Twelve foot tree,
Let me be free.
Twelve feet tall,
I will not fall.
Twelve foot tree,
Let me bee me.
Twelve feet tall,
They hit me with their all.
Twelve foot tree,
I begged on my knees.
Twelve foot tree,
Please let me be free.
Twelve foot tree,
They wouldn’t let me.”
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