Course Work Archives - Page 2 of 25 - Katie Steedly

[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!

Melanie Faith

Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.

Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.

The Society of Professional Journalists

In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.

I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.

Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

Enter your email here to receive Weekly Wide-Awake

Category: Course Work

Course Work

MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 181-185

Image. Events. Freedom. Rhyme. Call. EXERCISE 181: TEN BY TEN BY ONE each line with Write a poem ten lines long with ten syllables per line, each line with a concrete image (physical sensation), no adverbs, one continuous sentence. The ...

read more

Course Work

MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 176 – 180

Welcome Back. Punctuation. Belonging. Standing. Bad poetry. EXERCISE 176: WELCOME BACK into your life In what is probably a kissing cousin to the Thomas Lux prompt (Exercise 009: Giving Back), write a poem that welcomes back everything you�...

read more

Course Work

MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 171 — 175

Empathy. Quilt. Prom. Kaleidoscope. EXERCISE 171: AGREE TO DISAGREE as many as you At the top of an empty page, write down word for word a phrase, saying, or quote by someone you disagree with. Write down all the physical objects it makes y...

read more

Course Work

MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 166 — 170

Collage. Bureaucracy. Riff. Image. Form. EXERCISE 166: THE ART OF COLLAGE this and that Collage is a writing technique, taken (I think) from the artistic technique, whereby disparate pieces of this and that are put together to form a compos...

read more