This workshop is designed to help students read and respond to literature and to use their responses to literature as a springboard for writing. This workshop will ask participants to learn how to actively read in order to make meaning rather than simply have word recognition. Individual and paired work will be practiced as will writing and discussing ideas and reactions to the assignment. This workshop includes several discussion starters and pre-writing exercises in order to help students become comfortable with and even appreciative of poetry. Most students go through their early years of school accepting without question the validity of all they read and hear from authorities.
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Now take a poem and revisit it as a short story. Students will better understand the various genre characteristics if they have to use them. They will also learn how to revise for audience and purpose. This workshop attempts to make grammar lessons more easy to swallow by incorporating writing, discussing, and drawing. It will show that advertising is often sexist and objectifies and stereotypes females.