Teaching
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
I’ve taught…
- english as a second language at a language institute in texas
- reading and writing to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders
- academic and preap english 1 to high school freshman
- how to teach writing across curriculum to high school teachers
- english 2 to high school sophomores
- ap language and composition to high school juniors
- ap literature and composition to high school seniors
- high school french 1
- dual credit composition 1 and 2
Language is the neurochemistry of the ‘huge cooperative nervous system’ called society.
-from the Introduction to S. I. Hayakawa’s Language in Thought and Action
In my classroom, you will experience…
- writing as a tool for thinking
- writing in a variety of modes
- collaboration
- learning through revision
- conferences with peers
- conferences with me
- student choice
- student inquiry as curriculum
- space for diversity of thought and perspective
- critical thinking
- creation
Why don’t you…
…explore The Yellow Notebook, a Substack I write for my students.
Annilee Newton 