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      • American Political Parties: Their Failures and Their Futures
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2018 News Vol 4: Writing about Our Lives

Connecting Feelings and Memories

March 20, 2019 – 3:17 pm

Meghan Felix, K-2, Oakhurst STEAM Academy

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Tags author, daybook, edit, feelings/emotions, Memoir, memories, publish, revise, Writing Process, writing workshop | Permalink | Comments Off on Connecting Feelings and Memories
2018 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Writing about Our Lives

Teaching Students to Discover Their Writing Process through Memoirs

March 20, 2019 – 2:42 pm

Janella Booker, Third Grade, E.E. Waddell Language Academy

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Tags Brainstorming, conference, conferring, editing, events, formal conferences, genre conference, goals, heart map, individual conferences, informal conferences, Memoir, portfolio conference, process conference, publication conference, publish, read aloud, revise, skills conference, small group conferences, small moments, timeline, true story, Writers Workshop | Permalink | Comments Off on Teaching Students to Discover Their Writing Process through Memoirs

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      • 2017 Fellows Orientation
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  • Seminars
    • 2020 Seminars
      • African American Poetry & the Idea of Citizenship
      • “You were IN the Water?” Urban Waterways: Problems and Opportunities
      • Narratives of Muslim Life in America
      • Carolina in the Trenches: Localizing the Experiences of WWI
      • Illuminate Yourself! The Science of Glow
      • Anti-Racism and Pedagogy: What Does it Mean to be an Anti-racist Teacher?
      • Mindfulness & Education: Transforming Learning Through Awareness
      • Black Girl Magic (Mis)Understood: Representations and Perceptions of Black Women and Girls in the Education System
    • 2019 Seminars
      • 2019 CTI Fellows
      • Frankly Speaking: White Privilege
      • How to Build a Human
      • Childhood and the City Space in Literature
      • Children in War and Conflict
      • Climate Science and Solution Strategies
      • Africa: Beneath the Headlines
      • Writing in Mathematics
      • Time Travel: Using Music to Explore Past, Present, and Future Messages
    • 2018 Seminars
      • 2018 CTI Fellows List
      • The Art and Chemistry of Light
      • It’s About Time
      • Nurturing Nature: Epigenetics as a Way to Explore Social Justice
      • Writing about Our Lives: A Genre Study of Memoir
      • Exploring American Sacred Values
      • “A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small”: Teaching Human Rights
      • Insights into Latino Communities in Charlotte Today
      • Animals, Culture, and Society
    • 2017 Seminars
      • 2017 CTI Fellows List
      • Using Mathematics to Understand Social Issues
      • Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes
      • Chemical Interactions in the Body
      • Memorials, Memories, and American Identity
      • Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory
      • Cultivating Visual Literacy
      • The Rise (and Fall) of Democracies around the World
      • From Self to Students: Canvassing Art to Explore Identity
    • 2016 Seminars
      • 2016 CTI Fellows List
      • Literacy and Literacies in the 21st Century
      • How Science is Done: A Behind the Scenes Look at Scientific Research
      • The Many Faces of Capitalism around the Globe — Past and Present
      • Writing with Power: No Fear Here
      • FUNdamental Ideas in Math for Grades PreK-12
      • It’s a Small World! Exploring Science at the Tiniest Scale
      • Tracing the Legacy of Hispanic Cultures — 1492 to Today
      • Exploring Memoir — From Picture Book to Digital Story
    • 2015 Seminars
      • 2015 CTI Fellows List
      • Exercise and the Brain
      • What Makes a Nation?
      • The Origins of Human Language
      • Fundamentals of Mathematics: Problem Solving and Process Standards
      • Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War
      • Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences
      • Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture
      • Supernatural Figures in Theatre, Film and the Brain
    • 2014 Seminars
      • 2014 CTI Fellows List
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • The Global Energy Challenge
      • Metamorphosis: Transformative Experiences
      • Intersections of Science, Technology and Culture
      • Human Agency
      • The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel
      • Visual Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
      • Heroes, Rebels and Rock Stars: Cultural Icons in Modern Europe
    • 2013 Seminars
      • Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections at the Levine Museum of the New South
      • The Nature of Energy: How We Use and Store It to Power Our Everyday Lives
      • Math and Sports
      • Imagining Modern Bodies: Disability and Art at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
      • Grammar for the Real World
      • Human Social Groups
      • Chemical Magic
      • Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature
    • 2012 Seminars
      • African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement
      • All Immigration is Local: Exploring the New Geography of Immigration
      • American Political Parties: Their Failures and Their Futures
      • Entertaining with Math
      • Environmental Science and Climate Change
      • Reading African American Lives
      • Reading Media Imagery: Critical Thinking and Literacy
      • The Science of NASCAR
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