holidays – Lit Bits http://litbits.tengrrl.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:43:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 Send Us Your Turkey-Day Assignments! http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2009/10/31/send-us-your-turkey-day-assignments/ Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:43:29 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/?p=4431 Continue reading "Send Us Your Turkey-Day Assignments!"]]> Holidays can be hard to write about. The “what you did on your summer vacation” prompt probably tops the pile, but tired sentiments about gratitude and world peace might not be far behind.

With Thanksgiving coming up, the Teaching Poetry blog wants to know how you approach this holiday with your students. Do you assign elegant odes or SPAMku? Do you avoid the topic altogether?

  • How do you get around clichés and get your students thinking for themselves?
  • What models do you use?
  • If you teach creative writing, what assignments work best for generating original turkey-day themed verse?

Send in your thoughts, your favorite assignments–or stories of classroom disasters. We’ll be collecting your insights over the next couple of weeks and posting your responses on November 16th, just in time for the holiday. Then, we’ll ask you to vote for the coolest activity!

E-mail assignments to: aflynn (at) bedfordstmartins (dot) com

Deadline: anytime before Friday, November 13
Vote on all submissions: November 16
Favorites go live: November 17

Stay tuned!

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Joelle Hann is a senior editor at Bedford/St.Martin’s who worked on the third edition of Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry, and originally created the Teaching Poetry blog in 2009.

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