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We had so much fun with the first Vermont Writes Day, we decided to do a second and a third. We held the second one on March 17. (Go to vermontwrites.ywpvt.net to see a sampling of student work from the day.) The third is planned for May 5 and will focus on farming and will include this prompt:
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Submitted by ggevalt on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 18:04
On January 27, we held our first Vermont Writes Day a non-legislative designation for a day that is not particularly noteworthy other than being the birthday of Lewis Carroll. (For more about our Vermont Writes Day II, go to the story on this blog or to vermontwrites.ywpvt.net)
What we wanted to do was to see if we could get schools, teachers, students and staff to stop what they were doing and write -- for just seven minutes. We offered three suggested prompts: "Dear President Obama..." or "I am really good at ..." or "Listen..." (For more about Vermont Writes Day I, click here.)
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Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 00:51
Geoffrey Gevalt founded and directs the Young Writers Project, a VT nonprofit working to build a generation of better writers. Lee McIsaac directs YWP's mentoring and publication programs.Kate Fallone is a longtime UVM mentor and YWP instructor. This blog highlights cool things students and teachers are doing, talks about activities at YWP and shows some of the impact of this project. PLEASE COMMENT; otherwise we will think no one is reading. Thanks.
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