"In the electric, pulsating world around us, the essay lives a life of abandon, posing questions, speaking truths, fulfilling a need humans have to know what other humans think and wonder so we can feel less alone." -Katherine Bomer Sadly, many Students only know "essay" as a 5-paragraph, tightly structured writing assignment That must check all the boxes of a standardized formula.
In more than two decades of Teaching and consulting, she has used he.
Katherine Bomer, author of The Journey Is Everything, Hidden Gems, and Starting with What Students Do Best, is one of the field\'s most gifted writers as well as one of its most gifted teachers of writing.
About the Author: Heinemann congratulates Katherine Bomer for receiving the 2017 Outstanding Elementary Educator Award by NCTE.
Because after all, the Journey is everything.
Rediscover the power of the essay to bring out students\' true thinking-their true selves.
More importantly, "Essay gives its author the space, time, and freedom to think about and make sense of things, take a Journey of discovery, and speak her mind, without boundaries." Don\'t Students deserve the chance to develop their own topics, discover their own writing voices, and learn to structure prose organically, according to the content? Katherine gives you tools, strategies, and activities to bring a unit on more authentic writing into your practice. "Essay helps Students Write flexibly, fluently, and with emboldened voices," she writes in The Journey Is Everything, "qualities they can translate into any assigned writing task in school or in life." She argues That the close reading of Essays fulfills the recommendations of state and national standards, while practice in essay writing leads to better academic and test writing.
How did Essays in school get so far away from Essays in the world? Katherine makes a powerful case for Teaching the essay as a way to restore writing to think-That it is in fact necessary for students\' success in college and career. "In the electric, pulsating world around us, the essay lives a life of abandon, posing questions, speaking truths, fulfilling a need humans have to know what other humans think and wonder so we can feel less alone." -Katherine Bomer Sadly, many Students only know "essay" as a 5-paragraph, tightly structured writing assignment That must check all the boxes of a standardized formula
