


Handwritten Pages
I still find evidence of my past when cleaning out a desk drawer, when flipping through a book from a previous class, when rediscovering a journal. I relish opening the […]

An Essay in Pictures
I worry sometimes that we are losing a little more of our creativity each time we work through the writing process. Typically in AP Literature and Composition, we write and […]

Tension and Revision: Experimenting with Sound
Several days after Michael Torres visited Big Walnut, students approached me to ask if it was true: Did a man play his saxophone, making it sound like a blender? Yes, […]

Sharing Fear and Creative Writing
Т Т Т Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein–each year my students experience a love-hate relationship with this classic text, which translates to my own love-hate relationship when teaching it. The text is long, […]

Frankenstein: Accessing the Text through Stitches and Stories
Daily we wear marks on our bodies that tell some piece of our story. How often do we take ownership of those stories and tell them in the way we […]

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
I don’t know if you have seen this book, The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, a Caldecott Winner that takes an iconoclastic look at traditional fairy tales. […]

Guess what we have in store for PAGES next year?
Annie Leibovitz is one of our visual arts experiences for PAGES next year. You will have two choices for visual arts next year. You can only choose one visual arts […]

Meet our 2010-2011 artists-in-residence
The following teaching artists will work with Pages students and teachers this year: Chiquita Mullins Lee, writer Chiquita Mullins Lee is the project coordinator for Ohioтs Poetry Out Loud National […]