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 Student Samples Page:
HATE to LOVE Sonnets
an easy and fun way to understand and write Shakespearean Sonnets
The poetry William Shakepeare is inspiring student writers to try new techniques with the traits of sentence fluency and conventions. Join us in teaching (and adapting) this on-line lesson and sharing your students' work.
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, 9, 10, 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 up to three student samples, along with a digital photo of the student(s) and a signed permission slips, we will send you 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: Middle School
 Behold the Mountains
by Christopher, eighth grade
Let all the earth behold the mountains high.
An edifice of mounded rocky brawn,
They yearn to reach and touch the swatch of sky
With jagged peaks by God so deftly drawn
The slopes arrayed in drapes of forest green,
The leaves that partner with the wind in dance,
And canopies of foliage that gleam
And sway to the branches’ rustling chants,
But the jewel of mountains, the stars on flags,
Is the snow - flitting o’er their spiny crests
Sweeping through crevice; and under each crag
Topping each mountain like spindly white nests.
So all the earth, behold the mountains high
And hear them scream: “For God we testify!”
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