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 Student Samples Page:
How Do I Love Sonnets...
exploring sentence fluency and word choice by creating sonnets
The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is inspiring student writers to try new techniques with the traits of sentence fluency and word choice.Join us in teaching (and adapting) this on-line lesson and sharing your students' work.
New! You can publish up to three of your students' edited and finished stories at this page to be entered in a semi-annual contest for free classroom resources from the Northern Nevada Writing Project.
 Use these samples to inspire your student writers! Discussing the strengths of published student samples before, while, and after using this on-line assignment is important. If your students are engaged in trait- or skill-inspired discussions about any of the samples we've posted here, they will produce better writing, especially if you help them take their writing all the way through the writing process.
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Additional Student Samples Being Sought:
Grades 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
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WritingFix is currently seeking additional student samples from this writing assignment that can be featured in this space. Submitted student work must show evidence of revision, editing, and the final draft must be typed and sent through e-mail. Teachers: if you can help us obtain one, two or three student samples, along with a digital photo of the student(s) and a signed permission slips, we will send you either a complimentary copy of one of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's print publications.
To have us consider your students' writing for inclusion on this page, you must post the writing to our Ning page dedicated to this lesson. Click here to access that page. You must first be a member of the Writing Lesson of the Month Network in order to post.
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Student Samples: High School
 Campfire Bugs
by Ty, tenth grade poet
When the fire begins to sizzle and pop,
Campfire bugs take to flight.
On invisible platforms they skitter then hop.
They glint and glow with fiery light.
Add one more log and a swarm will be birthed,
Swirling and twirling 'til their bright red glow dims.
An explosion of flames marches out of the earth,
A dazzling display that I hope never ends.
Now the fire's gone to bed,
Asleep deep in that pit in an ashy black pile
Until tomorrow comes to a head.
We won't see those campfire bugs for a while.
It's twilight again and one log everyone lugs,
To spot where we first met those campfire bugs.
(Click here to view/print Ty and one of his classmate's sonnets.)
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