Are you willing and brave enough to stand up against injustice? Describe what you would do, and how your actions might make a difference. Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s ...

Describe how you would feel if a place that defines you was threatened to be destroyed or taken away. What would you do? Would you fight to save it? Students will read and respond to the YES! Magazine ...

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of ...

Usually, Elizabeth Karp enjoys writing. But this year, she said, was a little different. As the first four-time winner of Mankato’s Laws of Life essay contest, Karp has been a regular attendee at the ...

To introduce students to close reading poetry and using writing to understand reading; to prepare them to write a 4-6 page essay on a single poem Students have read selected poems and the chapter on ...

Writing college essays that stand out is a critical step in the college admissions process. College admissions officers read thousands of essays each year, and a compelling essay can make a ...

On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound ...