Your students will love rocking out to this satirical mentor text.
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Mentor Text Wednesday: Anthology Inspiration
Using a variety of geeky, awesome pop culture anthologies in our classroom can be the way to our students’ pens––and hearts.
Mentor Text Wednesday: Anthology Introductions
Anthologies are mentor text goldmines!
Mentor Text Wednesday: A Letter from Montreal
Your students will love this wintry mentor text about a first experience by Australian writer Mim Kempson.
Mentor Text Wednesday: On Rey
Mentor Text: The Power of Rey by Nicole Sperling What Rey Means to Me by Gabrielle Bondi What is a Mary Sue, and does Star Wars: The Force Awakens have one? by Caroline Framke Writing Techniques: Character analysis Pop culture analysis Using a feminist lens to critique character and pop culture Background: I got two […]
Mentor Text Wednesday: Golden Shovels are ‘Real Cool’
Today, we are thrilled to bring back an old friend, Mentor Text Wednesday, and a new friend, Jay Nickerson. Jay is something of a mentor text Jedi — magically and mysteriously finding amazing, current, engaging mentor texts and pairing them with oodles of ideas for uses in lots of different classroom contexts. We are […]
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