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<b>The
Power of Photographs to Inspire Writing</b></div>
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“<i>Words and pictures can work
together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William
Albert Allard</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American Photographer</div>
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Show a photograph to a child, and
the youngster will point to it, trace its image, and respond with a variety of
emotions. Show another to an adult, and you get a frown, a smile, or a
gesture—rarely will you draw a blank. Then show a photo, or a series of photos,
to people at any level, and they’ll respond with many different ideas that will
lead to the creation of many interesting poems, essays, and other works.</div>
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Why do students respond so
enthusiastically to graphic images? Here’s one theory. Early humans drew
pictures on the walls of caves. That’s visual orientation, the kind of
communication that doesn’t depend on the written word. Then along came paper
and ink, and with them, word orientation. Meticulously copying texts, monks
labored for centuries with this kind of mindset. True, they also embellished
these works with colorful designs and images—the illuminated manuscript— but
the text prevailed and the visual orientation of the cave was slowly being
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Then came the printing press
followed by machines that could set type and reproduce images that would have
astounded the medieval monks who labored in their cells. Later, during the 19<sup>th</sup>
Century, innovators discovered how to capture images on film, and still
photographs and motion pictures were born. During the 20<sup>th</sup> Century,
children in schools found themselves in groups called “Bluebirds” and “Robins,”
where they were encouraged to master the printed word. Frozen in time, little
Johnny and Betty roamed the pages of primary readers or scratched out weekly
compositions on topics like “My Vacation” or “My Favorite Pet.”</div>
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Today the pendulum of history is
swinging back toward an emphasis on visual images. The explosion that began
with the invention of photography recalled our early attempts to communicate by
drawing on the walls of caves. From still photography came motion pictures.
Then came television, and what was a trickle burst into a torrent. It was, in a
sense, a return to the cave. Finally, the digital revolution has converted the
torrent of images into a tsunami that floods the senses and is virtually
impossible to ignore.</div>
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</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Often maligned but never out of
sight, these visual images captivate us. Show students a simple photograph of
waves beating against the shore and you’ll be amazed by their responses. Some
will recall memories of seaside childhoods; others will visualize sea stories,
shipwrecks, mysteries of the deep, and more. Still others will venture into the
abstract—the world of simile, metaphor, and personification—perhaps
transcribing a bit of themselves into their writing. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
teachers who recognize the power of photographic images to inspire writing, the
rewards are great. No longer will students complain, “I don’t know what to
write about.” Why is this so? Perhaps it is because there is something magical
about photographs; something that causes students to respond spontaneously and
creatively; something that reaches into the subconscious and triggers
responses.</div>
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<b>A Light Bulb </b></div>
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One of the many good things about
using photos to inspire writing in the classroom is that you do not have to
look very far to discover suitable images. Consider, for example, a simple
photo of a light bulb and the ideas it triggered in the mind of Becky Brown, a
student at Peak To Peak Charter School, Lafayette, Colorado. </div>
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So cheerful</div>
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Yet so grim</div>
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The inspiration hits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span></div>
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The pencil caresses paper</div>
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Turning dreams into realities.</div>
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The words flow freely,</div>
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Unhindered. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Simply written as thought,</div>
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As fragments pieced together</div>
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From disorganization to art.</div>
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The pencil writes still,</div>
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As if it has a mind of its own.</div>
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The words just keep coming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And you sit, helpless to stem the
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Like the mouse versus the mountain.</div>
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You keep your head down</div>
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Oblivious to the world</div>
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Until the poem is done</div>
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And the inspiration trickles away</div>
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Like the stream in the desert.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
could be that digging into students for personal responses, abstract notions,
creative concepts, and subconscious ideas is the real value of using
photographs to inspire writing. But that is not the end. Photographs can also
be used to teach such writing skills as sense impressions, cause and effect,
and analysis.</div>
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<b>A Simple Photo</b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No
photograph is too simple or mundane to stimulate writing. Take, for example, a
picture of the exterior of a deserted house. Gloomy and low-keyed, it lends
itself to many interpretations. But it also makes possible the teaching of many
skills. “What’s the difference,” you might ask, “between the appearance of the
structure shown in the photo and the way it must have been when it was new?
What do you think happened to the people who once lived in this house?”
Responses will vary, of course, but quite often a student will come up with a
gem like the following by Eve Milrod, a student at Baldwin Senior High School,
Baldwin, New York.</div>
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The old house is scarred</div>
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And pitted. It once </div>
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was smooth and shiny.</div>
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Its windows are two eyes</div>
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Gazing out at nowhere</div>
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Devoid of glass.</div>
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Shadows lurk inside</div>
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Reminders, it would seem</div>
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Of long forgotten occupants.</div>
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<b>Man's Best Friend </b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Even
a simple photo of a dog painted on a doorway can serve as inspiration for
writing. A student of psychology, astronomy, and philosophy at Massbay College
in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Rose Scherlis responded to this image with the
following poem.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The Dog With No Name </b></div>
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So I dropped some fried
plantain for you to enjoy.<br />
You lived on a banana field in
Costa Rica,<br />
And it was beautiful, but the
pesticides<br />
For years underneath your delicate
paws<br />
Had twisted them until they grew
like poison ivy<br />
Bent in the wrong directions.<br />
Your ear was tattered, a page in a
book<br />
With the corner folded down,<br />
Signs of an ongoing war<br />
With a world so menacing<br />
When seen from way down there.<br />
But still your tail wagged<br />
Like a stick in the hand of a
drummer,<br />
And your fur shone<br />
Mottled with brown splotches,<br />
Just puddles of mud<br />
Surrounding your two copper eyes.
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Paired with such keywords as <i>dogs,
loyalty, friend, </i>and<i> dedication, </i>this photo—or one that is
similar—will trigger ideas leading to student writing, either poetry or prose.
What’s more you can always add a quotation like this one by Gilda Radner to
encourage even more creative thinking: “<i>I think dogs are the most amazing
creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role models for
being alive.”</i></div>
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<b>Different Points of View</b><i> </i></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And how about an exercise in point of view? Using the photo of
the protester shown here, divide the class into groups of twos, and ask the
members of each group to respond in writing from the point of view of either
the woman holding the sign or an observer who disagrees with the sign’s
message. Some students may choose to do this in the form of a dialogue. If you
really like to organize things, arrange other appropriate photographs into such
opposing themes as children and senior citizens, urban and rural, handcrafting
and mass production, leisure and industry—whatever will elicit responses from
student writers. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Perhaps
by now you are thinking of other ways in which you can inspire writing by using
photographs as stimuli. Here are just a few. (1) Use family photos to encourage
writing about parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, (2) Use photographs to
trigger the writing of haiku, (3) Create an anthology containing student photos
and the written works the photos inspired, (4) Use photographs to encourage
students to act out what they see in the photos before they write about them,
(5) Simply project several photographs on a screen without comment and let the
students take it from there.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the long run, what approach you take really doesn’t matter. When you use
photographs to inspire writing, the images speak for themselves. What’s more,
the poetry or prose your students will create will be more honest and
meaningful than most other student writing you have read. </div>
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<b>About
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8mJ3qBdIo8w/UinP9BF59fI/AAAAAAAAAtA/6T-wNgJMaqI/s1600/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8mJ3qBdIo8w/UinP9BF59fI/AAAAAAAAAtA/6T-wNgJMaqI/s200/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" width="158" /></a>A
veteran of the Korean War, Hank Kellner is a retired Associate Professor of
English currently based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of <b><i>125
Photos for English Composition Classes </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(J. Weston Walch, 1978); <i>How to Be a Better Photographer </i>(J.
Weston Walch, 1980); <b>Write What You See: 99 Photos To Inspire Writing (Prufrock
Press, 2009)</b>; and, with Elizabeth Guy, the co-author <i>of <b>Reflect and Write:
300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing</b></i> (Prufrock Press, 2013). His
other writings and photographs have appeared in hundreds of publications
nationwide. Visit his blog at hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com, and read more
about using photographs to inspire writing at
<a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/.</a></div>
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See also Hank Kellner’s
e-books<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=hank+kellner">https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=hank+kellner
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In this blog I usually write about<b> </b>using photographs<b> </b>to inspire writing<b> </b>in the classroom. Please visit the archives for more information on this topic.</div>
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In this installment of English Education, however, I want to introduce you to my newest novel, <i>The Lucky Star House of Celestial Pleasures.</i> Please read the book information shown below to find out more about this work, which is available as an eBook or pdf for just $1.99. Ordering information follows the text. <b></b></div>
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<b>The
Amazing Journey of Winston Finn and Liberty Belle</b></div>
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Politically
incorrect in every way, this satirical novel pokes fun at just about every
aspect of our society. Reminiscent of the writings of Voltaire and other great
satirists, <i>The Lucky Star House of Celestial Pleasures</i> takes the reader
on a rollicking journey that spares no person or institution as it satirizes
both men and women with all of their warts and blemishes.</div>
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After Winston
Finn's wife of many years leaves him to live with her girlfriend in Mississippi,
the distraught retired stockbroker decides to travel and see the world. Early
on, he meets Liberty Belle, a young former army nurse and airline flight
attendant. Because Winston and Liberty have similar interests, they decide to
embark on their journey together.</div>
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During their
travels, they encounter such characters as Father Flanagan and his <i>conversion
extraordinaire, </i>Olivia Stockton and the Society for the Prevention of
Erotic Relationships with Men (SPERM); Captain Fung Goo and the Chinese pirates;
Alandra the Moon Goddess; Willa Catheter and Captain Hashimototo; and a host of
others</div>
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At one point
in the novel, Liberty—or Libby as she prefers to be called—relates how she was
captured by Captain Fung Goo; sold into slavery at the Lucky Star House of
Celestial Pleasures in Thailand; and eventually escaped while at the same time
taking revenge on her nemesis, General Mortimer (Kickass) Shostakapulski.</div>
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At the
conclusion of the novel, three terrorists from Paducastan who are guest
students at a community college in New York kidnap our hero and heroine, spirit
them away to a remote cabin in the woods, and plan to train them to become
suicide bombers. But when Libby outwits Abdul bin Pasquelante, Mohammed bin
Rashid, and Mahmud bin Pudendum; the two travelers are able to escape.</div>
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<b><i>The
Lucky Star House of Celestial Pleasure</i></b><i> </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$1.99 Download as an eBook or pdf at
<a href="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/325849">http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/325849</a></div>
<b>About the Author: </b>Hank Kellner<b> </b>is a retired associate
professor of English. He is the author of <i>125 Photos for English Composition
Classes </i>(J. Weston Walch, 1978); <i>Terror at Mirror Lake</i> (Smashwords,
2013); <i>I Don’t Wanna Be an Orange Anymore </i>(Smashwords, 2013); <i>The
Taste of Appalachia </i>(Smashwords 2013); <i>How to Be a Better Photographer </i>(J.
Weston Walch, 1980), <i>Write What You See </i>(Prufrock Press, 2010), and,
with Elizabeth Guy <i>Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire
Writing</i> Prufrock Press, 2013). His other writings and photographs have
appeared in hundreds of publications nationwide.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">This week<b> </b>I'm delighted to present a guest blog by poet, avid gardener, mother of four, and prolific reader Elizabeth Guy. Impressed by the power of photographs to inspire writing, Guy often uses them to trigger ideas that lead to the creation of poems and other forms of writing. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Every Photo Tells a Story</span><b> </b><b> </b></h2>
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More and more often in my travels here and abroad, I see
young couples entangled in a romantic embrace, lip-locked like barnacles to the
hull of a ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s sometimes quite
bemusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often I wonder, “What does
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My co-author, Hank Kellner, loves
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choosing one or another to inspire a poem or a story.</div>
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Take for example this couple, caught by Kellner’s
lens exchanging a kiss along one of the river walks that edges the shores of
New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following photo and
poem combination was first published in our book, <i>Reflect & Write</i>:<i>300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing </i> (Prufrock
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">F</span>or anyone not
familiar with the name Zac Efron, feel free to substitute the name of any man
whose mere physical countenance makes women sigh with longing and get all
starry-eyed.</div>
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“<i>Anyone who’s a
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He’s no Zac Efron</div>
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His tattoos cover much that’s not seen</div>
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‘Though his brain’s not too keen,</div>
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And he favors the oddest of clothes,</div>
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I don’t understand it myself.</div>
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I guess the answer is this— </div>
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‘Though he belches and scratches and snores,<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span></div>
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When he takes me in his arms</div>
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I simply cannot resist,</div>
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As he lowers his lips to mine—</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>~<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Elizabeth Guy</span></div>
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Ah yes, when Spring is in the air, the pheromones fly everywhere!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even old codgers are not
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I remember several years ago when a widowed friend became
romantically involved with a gentleman and their relationship turned
serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her son asked her, “Why him,
Mom?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me afterwards in
confidence, “I really couldn’t explain it at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, you can’t tell your son something
like, ‘Well, when he kisses me I melt like an ice cream pop in a steam room!’”</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Do you have any photos that inspire you to write?</span></h2>
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<b><i> Coming to http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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What is this boy thinking?</div>
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Also, visit my co-author's blog at <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com</a></span><span style="color: black;"> See his ten-part series on photo
prompts to inspire writing at <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/" target="_blank">http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a></span> </div>
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<b>And Don’t Miss…</b><b> </b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b>
poems “White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of
Hank Kellner’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>twelve-part series THE
POWER OF PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at the Creativity Portal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>website <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing
assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
read more about <i>Reflect and Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a></div>
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For more photos and information not included in this blog,
please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
<i>Reflect and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords;
quotations; either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore”
section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet
Resources” section, and more. Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy (Prufrock Press, 2013), 153 pages, $24.95. </div>
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<b>Every Photograph Tells a Story</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Creative Concepts # 10 </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do
you do when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch
the cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter?
Brew another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the past
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first lines
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challenges. From time to time, keywords stimulate ideas. </div>
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information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates. </div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;">Finding Your Muse</span></b></div>
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</span>Student writer Becky Brown uses a photo of an incandescent light bulb as
motivation for writing a six-paragraph poem dealing with finding inspiration
for writing. In her poem she concludes that the writing process is a solitary
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">“You simply sit down at
the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Yet so grim</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The inspiration hits</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">And the pencil caresses the paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Turning dreams to realities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The words flow freely</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Simply written as thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">As fragments piecing themselves together</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The pencil writes</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">As if it has a mind of its own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The words keep coming</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">And you sit, helpless to stem the flow</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Like a mouse versus a mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">You keep your head down</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Until the poem is done</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">And the inspiration trickles away</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Like a stream in the desert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Keywords:</b>
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">writing, poetry, create, author</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Questions to Consider:</b> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">(1) When you write, do you find the words “flow freely”
until the inspiration trickles away? (2) Do you often find yourself inspired to
write? (3) How does it feel when you do? (4) How does it feel when you don’t?
Think of imagery and metaphors to describe these sensations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Possible
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enjoy writing. When my ideas flow freely, I…</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2) I’d rather play
video games that try to write just about anything.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b>
poems “White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing
assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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more about <i>Reflect and Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a></div>
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Growing up in the fictional town of
Meadowview, young Willie Watson objects to being required to play the part of
an orange in the school play when he is nine and in the fourth grade. But
that's just the beginning of his problems. As he continues through elementary
school, Willie has to deal with the town bully; Christmas with his relatives;
the death of a schoolmate; the loss of his girlfriend; the theft of a fountain
pen; his broken eyeglasses, and much more.</div>
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Included in this book are such
chapters as "There Is No Santa Claus," "Oh Captain, My
Captain," "The Dog in the Rhinestone Collar," "A Bird's
Just a Bird," and "Hey Brucie, Your Sister Wears Long
Underwear."</div>
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Readers will enjoy these humorous and often touching
descriptions of a young boy's experiences as he grows up in a small town many
years ago. See sample pages and buy this eBook at
<a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312279">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312279</a></div>
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miss <b>Terror at Mirror Lake</b>.</div>
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Mirror Lake. Secrets of sex, lies, and death are all patiently waiting to
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Hamptonville seems the last place you would find sadistic sex, drugs,
blackmail, and murder. But that's exactly what Bruce Orum and his girlfriend
Cindy Garvey encounter when they flee from New York City after having killed
another girl. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hamptonville they meet Luke
Downing, a psychopath who soon uses drugs to control Cindy and make her his sex
slave. A cruel, vicious character, Downing showed all the classic symptoms of a
cold-blooded killer from the time he was a boy growing up with an imaginary
friend who encourages him in his perversions until he became and adult. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having dominated Cindy, Downing
uses her to seduce two fishermen, Pete Engstrom and Hal Bonnacker, when they
visit Mirror Lake, after which he plans to blackmail them. Although Cindy
seduces the men, she double crosses Downing, disappears, and the men get away.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the next few months Engstrom
and Bonnacker express guilt over what happened at the lake. They decide to
return to the scene to find Cindy. Sensing a problem, their wives decide to
accompany them.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Mirror Lake Downing takes the
two couples prisoner and plans to torture and humiliate them before killing
them. But he does not know that Sheriff Jeff Parker and Molly Hutchison are on
his trail and determined to stop him.<br />
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breathtaking ending, you will find yourself on pins and needles waiting to see
what happens on the next page.</div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;">Two Books That Will Help
to Inspire Writing </span></b></div>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. </div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and
Photos to Inspire Writing</span> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Hank
Kellner and Elizabeth Guy</span> , <span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN
978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages, $24.95. See more and order
at</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</span> </span>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<b>Every Photograph Tells a Story</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do
you do when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch
the cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter?
Brew another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray
for inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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<b>A New Photo Every
Week</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For more
information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates. </div>
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<i> Bell, thou soundest solemnly,/When, on Sabbath morning,/
Fields deserted lie!</i><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Student writer Christiana Pontier’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>poem “Still the Bells” begins with a
question, asks several more questions, and concludes with a final question. Is
it possible to answer these questions? What might the bells represent? Why is
the poet so concerned with them? The answers to these and other questions will
provide inspiration for many different kinds of writing.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b>Still the Bells </b></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qvU2li_Yo3c/UY43j1izJkI/AAAAAAAAAnY/G_f380fX200/s1600/PHOTO+101+BY+HANK+KELLNER.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qvU2li_Yo3c/UY43j1izJkI/AAAAAAAAAnY/G_f380fX200/s320/PHOTO+101+BY+HANK+KELLNER.JPG" width="250" /></a><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Why do your bells ring?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Why do they ringle and jingle? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Jingle and jangle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Why do they ring?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Is there no hand to stop them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Is there not a hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>escorted by
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reaching
out to still them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">To stop them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">To stop them altogether?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">To still them </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Forever?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Keywords:</b> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">bells, alarm,
sunlight, disturbance</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Challenge:</b> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Write</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">two or more paragraphs in which you describe the ringing of a bell from
the point of view of at least two different people.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-style: normal;">Possible Opening Lines: </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
student sitting in class waiting for the bell, sometimes I feel that a minute
can seem like an hour. For example, …</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the
other hand, as teacher, I’ve found that the bell that signals the end of class
sometimes seems to ring too soon. I remember one time when…</span></div>
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<b>Coming Next Week</b><i> </i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b>
poems “White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing
assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read more about <i>Reflect and
Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a></div>
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<b>New Book Presents Recollections </b></div>
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<b>of a Boy's Childhood </b></div>
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<b>During World War II</b> </div>
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Growing up in the fictional town of
Meadowview, young Willie Watson objects to being required to play the part of
an orange in the school play when he is nine and in the fourth grade. But
that's just the beginning of his problems. As he continues through elementary
school, Willie has to deal with the town bully; Christmas with his relatives;
the death of a schoolmate; the loss of his girlfriend; the theft of a fountain
pen; his broken eyeglasses, and much more.</div>
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Included in this book are such
chapters as "There Is No Santa Claus," "Oh Captain, My
Captain," "The Dog in the Rhinestone Collar," "A Bird's
Just a Bird," and "Hey Brucie, Your Sister Wears Long
Underwear."</div>
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Readers will enjoy these humorous and often touching
descriptions of a young boy's experiences as he grows up in a small town many
years ago. See sample pages and buy this eBook at
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/312279</div>
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<b>Exciting,
Spine-Tingling, and Difficult, to Put Down </b></div>
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asleep, don't
miss <b>Terror at Mirror Lake</b>.<br />
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Terror lurks in the shadows of
Mirror Lake. Secrets of sex, lies, and death are all patiently waiting to
surface from its murky depths.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small, sleepy town of
Hamptonville seems the last place you would find sadistic sex, drugs, blackmail,
and murder. But that's exactly what Bruce Orum and his girlfriend Cindy Garvey
encounter when they flee from New York City after having killed another girl. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hamptonville they meet Luke
Downing, a psychopath who soon uses drugs to control Cindy and make her his sex
slave. A cruel, vicious character, Downing showed all the classic symptoms of a
cold-blooded killer from the time he was a boy growing up with an imaginary
friend who encourages him in his perversions until he became and adult. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having dominated Cindy, Downing
uses her to seduce two fishermen, Pete Engstrom and Hal Bonnacker, when they
visit Mirror Lake, after which he plans to blackmail them. Although Cindy
seduces the men, she double crosses Downing, disappears, and the men get away.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the next few months Engstrom
and Bonnacker express guilt over what happened at the lake. They decide to
return to the scene to find Cindy. Sensing a problem, their wives decide to
accompany them.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Mirror Lake Downing takes the
two couples prisoner and plans to torture and humiliate them before killing
them. But he does not know that Sheriff Jeff Parker and Molly Hutchison are on
his trail and determined to stop him.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From page one all the way to the
breathtaking ending, you will find yourself on pins and needles waiting to see
what happens on the next page.</div>
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See sample pages and buy this
ebook at https:www.smashwords.com/books/view/309191 </div>
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<b>Two Books That Will Help to Inspire Writing </b></div>
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<b>in the Classroom </b></div>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <b> </b></span><b>Reflect
and Write</b></i><b> </b>contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and
Photos to Inspire Writing</span> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Hank
Kellner and Elizabeth Guy</span> , <span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN
978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages, $24.95. See more and order
at</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"></span></span>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rVEFM5szPlo/UY4741y7CGI/AAAAAAAAAoM/G-p2fVh3Hqg/s1600/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rVEFM5szPlo/UY4741y7CGI/AAAAAAAAAoM/G-p2fVh3Hqg/s200/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" width="158" /></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts. <br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<i>If one picture is
worth a thousand words, can one picture <b>inspire</b> a thousand words?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Creative <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>oncepts #8</span><b> </b>
</h1>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do
you do when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch
the cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter?
Brew another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray
for inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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<b>A New Photo Every
Week</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For more
information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates. </div>
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<b>Flower Power</b> </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adjunct
Professor of English Laura Pastuszek teaches a course titled Writing and
Communications for Teachers. In her nature-related poem “Continuity,” a flower
speaks as if it were human. At the same time, the poet identifies with the flower and uses
its qualities to express appreciation for her place in the world around her.</div>
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<b>Continuity</b> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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I am full of life</div>
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as my presence</div>
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fills the air with</div>
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Others delight in my beauty</div>
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and I am grateful for the</div>
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branches that undergird me.</div>
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For without them </div>
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I would not be</div>
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A place of refuge</div>
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For others to know </div>
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and feel welcomed to</div>
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create new life</div>
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placing an imprint of the process</div>
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on my safe and supple petals.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Class
discussion based on this poem-photo combination can help students think of the
elements of nature they might compare themselves to. Then, using
personification, some students may choose to write poems in the same style as
“Continuity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others may choose to
create prose that reflects their relationship with or understanding of nature.
Still others may find inspiration in the words of the poet John Greenleaf
Whittier: <i>“The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward
and is lost to our sight.”</i></div>
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<b>Keywords: </b><i>refuge, life, nature, reproduction</i></div>
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<b>Challenge</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Write a poem or story in which you describe your existence from the
point of view of an inanimate object.</div>
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<b>Possible Opening Line: </b>You can believe me when I say
that the life of a cell phone isn’t an easy one. All day long and even into the
night…</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Coming Next Week</b></span><br />
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Can you hear the
bells?</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ohYForKPPk0/UYUHwWm3aCI/AAAAAAAAAm4/Zjwd7cqvjQs/s1600/PHOTO+101+BY+HANK+KELLNER.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ohYForKPPk0/UYUHwWm3aCI/AAAAAAAAAm4/Zjwd7cqvjQs/s200/PHOTO+101+BY+HANK+KELLNER.JPG" width="156" /></a></div>
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<b>And Don’t Miss…</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b>
poems “White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing
assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read more about <i>Reflect and
Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a></div>
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<b>Exciting,
Spine-Tingling, and Difficult, to Put Down </b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i5Qz1C28u28/UYUHB3OhhfI/AAAAAAAAAms/Xnh_dG9P9f4/s1600/1600x2400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i5Qz1C28u28/UYUHB3OhhfI/AAAAAAAAAms/Xnh_dG9P9f4/s200/1600x2400.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SiWa9-lJAI/UXvYF8EgswI/AAAAAAAAAlw/u2nyNLVIQOs/s1600/1600+X+12400.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></a> For a
psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages long after everyone
else has fallen asleep, don't miss <b>Terror at Mirror Lake</b>.</div>
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Terror lurks in the shadows of
Mirror Lake. Secrets of sex, lies, and death are all patiently waiting to
surface from its murky depths.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small, sleepy town of
Hamptonville seems the last place you would find sadistic sex, drugs,
blackmail, and murder. But that's exactly what Bruce Orum and his girlfriend
Cindy Garvey encounter when they flee from New York City after having killed
another girl. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hamptonville they meet Luke
Downing, a psychopath who soon uses drugs to control Cindy and make her his sex
slave. A cruel, vicious character, Downing showed all the classic symptoms of a
cold-blooded killer from the time he was a boy growing up with an imaginary
friend who encourages him in his perversions until he became and adult. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having dominated Cindy, Downing
uses her to seduce two fishermen, Pete Engstrom and Hal Bonnacker, when they
visit Mirror Lake, after which he plans to blackmail them. Although Cindy
seduces the men, she double crosses Downing, disappears, and the men get away.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the next few months Engstrom
and Bonnacker express guilt over what happened at the lake. They decide to
return to the scene to find Cindy. Sensing a problem, their wives decide to
accompany them.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Mirror Lake Downing takes the
two couples prisoner and plans to torture and humiliate them before killing
them. But he does not know that Sheriff Jeff Parker and Molly Hutchison are on
his trail and determined to stop him.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From page one all the way to the
breathtaking ending, you will find yourself on pins and needles waiting to see
what happens on the next page.</div>
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See sample pages and buy this
ebook at https:www.smashwords.com/books/view/309191 </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Two Books That Will Help to Inspire Writing</span></h1>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect and Write</i> contains more
than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations; either “Inspiration” or
“Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire
Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources” section, and more. This
collection will help stimulate discussion that will trigger meaningful writing
at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Includes CD with photos
and poems from the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and
Photos to Inspire Writing</span> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Hank
Kellner and Elizabeth Guy</span> , <span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN
978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages, $24.95. See more and order
at</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</span> </span>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts. </div>
<div class="MsoHeader" style="tab-stops: .5in center 3.0in right 6.0in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2,
118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See
more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<i>Words and pictures
can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.</i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>William Albert Allard, American Photographer
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you do when your brain becomes
oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the cursor on your monitor
blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew another cup of coffee?
Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for inspiration?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Creative Concepts # 7</b></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></b></div>
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A New Photo Every
Week</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For more
information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates. <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<strong>The Return of Watermelon
Pickle…Almost </strong></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d been teaching for six years
when Stephen Dunning’s <i>Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle</i> was
published in June 1966. Because that delightful book featured 114 modern poems
accompanied by exciting photographs, it soon became a favorite with English
teachers who wanted to teach poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
teachers, however, realized that when the photographs that appeared in <i>Reflections</i>
were viewed apart from the poems, they were powerful incentives to writing.
Other teachers discovered that the combination of a photograph and a poem
triggered students’ imaginations and helped to inspire writing.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the photograph, the
extremes of light and darkness suggest ideas that students can translate into
writing. In the poem “Diamonds on Velvet” the narrator introduces thoughts that
many people share at one time or another. Together, the photograph and the poem
can introduce ideas that will trigger students’ thought processes and help to
create many kinds of written compositions. The possibilities are endless.<br />
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Like diamonds on black velvet,<br />
Starlight dances on water.<br />
Alone, I sit and think<br />
Of life, and love,<br />
And lesser things like<br />
Who will win the Super Bowl next year?</div>
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<b>Challenges: </b>1. Write a six-line poem that ends with a
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person, place, or thing. Use vivid imagery.</div>
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<b>Keywords: </b><i>meditating, jewels, football, solitude</i>
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<b>Coming Next Week</b><i> </i></div>
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Flower Power </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b>
poems “White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing
assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read more about <i>Reflect and
Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a></div>
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<b>Exciting, Spine-Tingling, and Difficult, to Put Down </b></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SiWa9-lJAI/UXvYF8EgswI/AAAAAAAAAlw/u2nyNLVIQOs/s1600/1600+X+12400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3SiWa9-lJAI/UXvYF8EgswI/AAAAAAAAAlw/u2nyNLVIQOs/s200/1600+X+12400.jpg" width="133" /></a> For a psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages long after everyone else has fallen asleep, don't miss <b>Terror at Mirror Lake</b>.<br />
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of sex, lies, and death are all patiently waiting to surface from its murky
depths.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small, sleepy town of
Hamptonville seems the last place you would find sadistic sex, drugs,
blackmail, and murder. But that's exactly what Bruce Orum and his girlfriend
Cindy Garvey encounter when they flee from New York City after having killed
another girl. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Hamptonville they meet Luke
Downing, a psychopath who soon uses drugs to control Cindy and make her his sex
slave. A cruel, vicious character, Downing showed all the classic symptoms of a
cold-blooded killer from the time he was a boy growing up with an imaginary
friend who encourages him in his perversions until he became and adult. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having dominated Cindy, Downing
uses her to seduce two fishermen, Pete Engstrom and Hal Bonnacker, when they
visit Mirror Lake, after which he plans to blackmail them. Although Cindy
seduces the men, she double crosses Downing, disappears, and the men get away.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the next few months Engstrom
and Bonnacker express guilt over what happened at the lake. They decide to
return to the scene to find Cindy. Sensing a problem, their wives decide to
accompany them.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Mirror Lake Downing takes the
two couples prisoner and plans to torture and humiliate them before killing
them. But he does not know that Sheriff Jeff Parker and Molly Hutchison are on
his trail and determined to stop him.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From page one all the way to the
breathtaking ending, you will find yourself on pins and needles waiting to see
what happens on the next page.</div>
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See sample pages and buy this ebook at https:www.smashwords.com/books/view/309191 </div>
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<b>Two Books That Will Help to Inspire Writing</b> </div>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and
Photos to Inspire Writing</span> </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Hank
Kellner and Elizabeth Guy</span> , <span style="font-weight: normal;">ISBN
978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages, $24.95. See more and order
at</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</span> <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"></span></span>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it presents,
this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use Reflect and
Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use Photos to
Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing prompts. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<i>The</i> <i>human
brain processes visuals 60,000 faster than it processes text.</i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you
do when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the
cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew
another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for
inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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A New Photo Every
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For more
information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>
and <a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>.
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates. </div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><b>A World without Color</b> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you visualize a world without
color? A world completely devoid of vivid reds, subdued earth tones, bright
greens, yellows, or blues. That was the challenge for Cynthia Staples, a
writer-photographer based in Somerville, Massachusetts, when she wrote “The
Absence of Color.” Visit her blog at <a href="http://wordsandimagesbycynthia.com/">http://wordsandimagesbycynthia.com/</a>
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Does sadness have a
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Muted blue perhaps tinged with gray.</div>
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White with ash layered throughout</div>
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Like Morbier cheese?</div>
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Not Black. Black is beautiful</div>
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As are gold, brown, and green.</div>
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They indicate life.</div>
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Sadness equals absence</div>
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Of light and color and warmth.</div>
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Arctic white then, yes,</div>
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That’s the color of sadness.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staples’ poem
describes emotional states in terms of color. Describe the feelings you
experience when you see certain colors. Try to come up with such unconventional
colors as “arctic white” or “white with ash layered throughout like Morbier
cheese.” What color descriptions can you think of? In what ways does color
affect people’s moods. What are your favorite colors, and how do they affect
you?</div>
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<b>Keywords:</b> <i>brilliant, lemon-colored</i>, <i>pale, sparkling, dazzling</i></div>
<b>Possible
opening lines: </b>1<b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>My senses
reeled when I saw the colors in the sky that evening when…
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like a azure sky?</div>
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Diamonds on Velvet</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer Cynthia Staples’ poem “White
and White.” It’s in Part Four of my twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE
WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>
and <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read
more about <i>Reflect and Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing</i></b><i> </i>by Hank Kellner
and Elizabeth Guy , ISBN 978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages,
$24.95. See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.</div>
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Words and pictures can work together to communicate more
powerfully than either alone.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> William Albert Allard American Photogrpaher</span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div>
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<b>Creative Concepts
5</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you
do when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the
cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew
another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for
inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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<b> </b><b> </b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>A New Photo Every
Week</b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For more
information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>,
as well as <a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>.
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to Hank
Kellner and a link to hankpix-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">The Amazing Adventures of Avenger Woman</span><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></h2>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OaPjbSFDOlY/UWVZZ1U2GUI/AAAAAAAAAj4/H7EzjxSEz1g/s1600/255+Used+Superwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OaPjbSFDOlY/UWVZZ1U2GUI/AAAAAAAAAj4/H7EzjxSEz1g/s200/255+Used+Superwoman.jpg" width="141" /></a></div>
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This photo is supposed to show a brand new super
heroine named Avenger Woman, but it's really a photo of a section of a mural in
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Of course, you could use almost any other
similar photo if you if you want to have some fun while encouraging your
students to create fanciful compositions.</div>
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Not as well known as Wonder Woman, Supergirl, or
Cat- woman, Avenger Woman is said to be a descendant of the Aztec god
Quitzelpickelpetal. By day she is an English teacher at a high school, where
she is known as Ms. Consuela Hernandez. By night, she fights crime all over the
world, and even in outer space. </div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Avenger Woman's last
amazing adventure took place at a mall in Anytown, USA, where she thwarted an
attempt by the evil Doctor No-No-No to kill everyone at the mall by releasing
poison gas into it. Using her unique ability to discern what others are
thinking, Avenger Woman was able to enter the mind of her opponent and, disarm
him, and cause him to freeze in place until the police arrived.<br />
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
After conducting a discussion based on superheroes
and super heroines, you could ask your students or peers to write descriptions
of Avenger Woman in which they depict the clothing she wears when she is a
teacher as contrasted to the clothing she wears as a super heroine. Students
may also discuss Avenger Woman's physical abilities, as well as any other
extraordinary super powers she has. Alternatively, aspiring writers may choose
to create original super heroines or superheroes about whom to write.</div>
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<b>Keywords: </b>extraordinary, superhero, champion, heroine</div>
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<b>Suggested Opening Lines: </b>My math teacher<b> </b>was
so timid the kids in my class called her Ms. Powderpuff–behind her back, of
course. Many years passed before I discovered that…</div>
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<b>Coming Next Week </b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OFQnWNcpj2E/UWVZ4dHyHlI/AAAAAAAAAkA/zdZVMupGt9k/s1600/24+MALL+SKYLIGHT+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OFQnWNcpj2E/UWVZ4dHyHlI/AAAAAAAAAkA/zdZVMupGt9k/s320/24+MALL+SKYLIGHT+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><br /></span></b></div>
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A World Without Color</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">And Don’t Miss…</span> </b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b> poems
“White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>
and <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read more
about <i>Reflect and Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Two Books That Will Help to Inspire Writing</span><i> </i>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing</i></b><i> </i>by Hank Kellner
and Elizabeth Guy , ISBN 978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages,
$24.95. See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJGnXlcKBak/UWVbZ3CdyZI/AAAAAAAAAkU/mdqZuIeQcD8/s1600/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJGnXlcKBak/UWVbZ3CdyZI/AAAAAAAAAkU/mdqZuIeQcD8/s200/WWYS+OLD+COVER.jpg" width="158" /></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing prompts.
<br />
<div class="MsoHeader" style="tab-stops: .5in center 3.0in right 6.0in;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.</div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Words and pictures
can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.</i></div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
William Albert Allard</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
American Photographer</div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Creative Concepts
4</b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you do
when your brain becomes oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the
cursor on your monitor blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew
another cup of coffee? Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for
inspiration?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>A New Photo Every Week </b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For even
more information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>
and <a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>.
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or, for use in your blog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with credit to Hank Kellner and a link to
hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
commercial use please contact the author for rates.</div>
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<b> The Guitar Player</b></div>
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“Heard melodies are
sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”</div>
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–John Keats <i>Ode on a
Grecian Urn</i></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzXJhzcHs7I/UV8mf0LwW-I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/e3_CGdMpJSQ/s1600/85+Guitar+Player+Europe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzXJhzcHs7I/UV8mf0LwW-I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/e3_CGdMpJSQ/s200/85+Guitar+Player+Europe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, you
can’t hear the music this street musician is playing. Paradoxically, however,
maybe you you can hear it in your mind. Is it folk music? Flamenco? Music to
accompany modern lyrics? Perhaps you can “hear” the sound in your mind while
you create words that go along with it. </div>
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<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keywords</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>musical instrument, guitar player, street
music, isolated man</i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Challenges:</b>Write
a poem in which a musical instrument plays an important role. Write a detailed
description of the guitar player and his surroundings. Write a composition in
which you describe other street musicians you may have seen. Use your
imagination to recall a time in your life when you felt isolated from friends
and family. Describe your own experiences with a musical instrument.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re in a
workshop or other group setting, exchange papers with your peers and read each
other’s work, either aloud or silently. Then write positive comments,
questions, and/or suggestions before returning the papers to their authors.</div>
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<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Possible
opening lines: </b>When I was about ten years old, my parents decided that I
should take piano lessons. Oh, how I hated to make those weekly trips to visit
my teacher, a wizened old man named Mr. Paderewski. Every time I went there,
the ancient piano teacher<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would wave
his baton in time to a metronome while I attempted to master the same scales
over and over again.</div>
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<b>And Don't Miss..</b>. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English
teacher <b>Mara Dukats</b> and writer-photographer <b>Cynthia Staples’</b> poems
“White and White” and “The Absence of Color.” They’re in Part Four of my
twelve-part series USING PHOTOS TO INSPIRE WRITING at <a href="http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/">http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/hank-kellner/using-poems-and-photos-to-inspire-writing-part-4/</a>
, as well as <b>Anna J. Small’s</b> writing assignment in "<a href="http://teachingenglishlanguagearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Viewing-and-Writing-about-Photos.pdf" target="_blank">Viewing and Writing about Photos from Around the World</a>"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, read
more about <i>Reflect and Write </i>in the SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/">http://www.slj.com/2013/03/curriculum-connections/meeting-the-ccss-through-poetry-professional-shelf/</a>
</div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Coming Next Week</b></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EyLvtQ1JsB8/UV8nPvtwsbI/AAAAAAAAAjY/U99N8Z27MG8/s1600/255+Used+Superwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EyLvtQ1JsB8/UV8nPvtwsbI/AAAAAAAAAjY/U99N8Z27MG8/s200/255+Used+Superwoman.jpg" width="141" /></a><b> </b><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></div>
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span>Avenger Woman Lives!
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<b>Two Books That Will Help to Inspire Writing </b></div>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a “Twelve
Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet Resources” section,
and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will trigger
meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing</i></b><i> </i>by Hank Kellner
and Elizabeth Guy , ISBN 978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages,
$24.95. See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos
to Inspire Writing</i></b> is a collection of photographs and writing prompts
designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos and ideas it
presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways to Use
Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers Use
Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Write What You See: 99 Photos to
Inspire Writing</i> </b>by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN
978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages, includes CD, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a>.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Creative Concepts # 3</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i>Words and pictures
can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.</i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">William Albert Allard</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">American Photographer </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What do you do when your brain becomes
oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the cursor on your monitor
blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew another cup of coffee?
Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
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<b>A New Photo Every
Week</b></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For even
more information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>
and <a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a>
</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or, for use in your blog with credit to
Hank Kellner and a link to hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial
use please contact the author for rates. For information about and to purchase <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing, </i>please visit at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
Photos by the author.</div>
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<b>Descriptive
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one of these photos a woman dressed in
white stands before an outdoor bulletin board, her back to the camera. In a
second photo a woman dressed in jeans sits on a fence. Both women appear to be
engrossed in something they’re reading. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Uh712lZHU4/UVg8bXizL_I/AAAAAAAAAiw/gP0plOwxsRM/s1600/109+Girl+Read.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0Uh712lZHU4/UVg8bXizL_I/AAAAAAAAAiw/gP0plOwxsRM/s200/109+Girl+Read.jpg" width="196" /></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b></span>Who are these two
women? What are they like? What are the similarities/differences between them?
What would they say to each other if they were to meet? What are their families
like? Their occupations? Their hopes and dreams? What is the man in the
background of the second photo thinking? Those are but a few of the many
questions that can serve as inspiration for writing.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Possible Writing
Assignment:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two women shown in
the photos meet by chance in a coffee shop and discover that they are distant
relatives. Write a composition in which you reveal the conversation that takes
place between them.</div>
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<b>Keywords: </b><i>isolate, reading, women, onlooker</i></div>
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<b>Suggested Opening Lines: </b>When I looked across the
coffee shop and saw the woman hunched over her laptop, I was sure I knew her.</div>
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<b>Coming Next Week </b></div>
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A Stone Wall and a
Guitar Player</div>
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<b> Another Helpful Source for Inspiration </b>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DPbUa8UsZe0/UVg9nyuUHfI/AAAAAAAAAjA/SfIAyWDxwW0/s1600/FRONT+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DPbUa8UsZe0/UVg9nyuUHfI/AAAAAAAAAjA/SfIAyWDxwW0/s200/FRONT+COVER.jpg" width="154" /></a><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflect
and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords; quotations;
either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore” section; a
“Twelve Ways to Inspire Your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. </div>
Students” section; a special “Internet Resources”
section, and more. This collection will help stimulate discussion that will
trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing</i></b><i> </i>by Hank Kellner
and Elizabeth Guy , ISBN 978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages,
$24.95. See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Creative Concepts # 2</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i>If one picture is
worth a thousand words, can the same picture inspire a thousand words?</i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What do you do when your brain becomes
oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the cursor on your monitor
blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew another cup of coffee?
Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for inspiration?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>A New Photo Every
Week</b></div>
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<b> </b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing. Occasionally, specific suggestions
will present challenges. From time to time, keywords will stimulate ideas. For
more information about using photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com/">http://ebowmanguy.blogspot.com</a> </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or, for use in your blog with credit to
Hank Kellner and link to hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial use
please contact the author for rates.</div>
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<b>A Boy, a Bicycle, and
a Garden Hose </b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One way to
inspire writing in the classroom is to ask students to list the first words
that come to mind when they view this photo. Aspiring writers can then compile
a master list of keywords that will help to stimulate their imaginations. For
example, the word <i>bicycle </i>suggests any number of possibilities, as do <i>water,
child, boy</i>, and <i>hose.</i></div>
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<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Thoughts
of another writer always provide inspiration for others. And sometimes just a
portion of a direct quotation can serve as a trigger for new compositions, as
in Walt Whitman’s “Silent and amazed, even when I was a little boy/I remember I
heard…” Using this concept as the basis for an opening sentence, students can
recall events that occurred earlier during their lives.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Provocative
questions can help to trigger written compositions. For example: Why is this
boy not wearing any clothes while he washes the bicycle? What would be the
responses of passersby when they see the boy, the bicycle, and the garden hose?
Where are the boy’s parents? How would you respond to this situation if you
witnessed it? </div>
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<b>Keywords: </b><i>bicycle, boy, childhood, garden hose</i></div>
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<b>Challenge: </b>Write a monologue from the point of view
of a parent whose child is constantly creating problems for the family.</div>
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<b>Possible Opening Line: </b>I just don’t know what to do
with that child. The other day my neighbor told me that … </div>
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<b>Coming Next Week</b></div>
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Who is this woman?</div>
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<b>Another Source of
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For more photos and information not included in this blog,
please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
<i>Reflect and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords;
quotations; either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore”
section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet
Resources” section, and more. Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy (Prufrock Press, 2013), 153 pages, $24.95.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See the latest review of <i>Reflect and
Write</i> at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R29PUHZ6Z2QP53/ref=cm_sw_em_r_asr_3gqGF.1TBHQ8Y_r">http://www.amazon.com/review/R29PUHZ6Z2QP53/ref=cm_sw_em_r_asr_3gqGF.1TBHQ8Y_r</a>
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<b>Creative Concepts</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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<i>If one picture is
worth a thousand words, can the same picture inspire a thousand words?</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What do you do when your brain becomes
oatmeal, your fingers become lead, and you watch the cursor on your monitor
blink endlessly without moving even one millimeter? Brew another cup of coffee?
Vacuum the rugs? Take the dog out for a walk? Pray for inspiration?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wasn’t
born to vacuum rugs,” writes Elizabeth Guy, poet, storyteller, and co-author of
<i>Reflect and Write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>“That’s why,
when my brain turns to stone while I struggle for new ideas, I use photographs
for inspiration.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>A New Photo Every Week
</b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Whether
you’re a teacher, a student, an aspiring writer, a professional writer, or a
poet, you’ll discover that the photos and ideas posted here during the coming
weeks will help you overcome the dreaded “writer’s block,” while at the same
time inspiring you to create new and exciting works of prose and poetry. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes
direct quotations will accompany the photos. At other times, suggested first
lines will serve as motivation for writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Occasionally, specific suggestions will present challenges. From time to
time, keywords will stimulate ideas. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For even more information about using
photos to inspire writing, click on these links: <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner/</a>
and ebowmanguy.blogspot.com.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Please
note: feel free to download the photos for your personal use as inspiration;
for use in classrooms or workshops; or for use in your blog with credit to
Hank Kellner and a link to hank-englisheducation.blogspot.com. For commercial
use please contact the author for rates. For information about and to purchase <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing, </i>please visit at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
Photos by the author.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four empty chairs
are lined up in front of a coffee shop. One can’t help wondering why the chairs
are empty. Did something happen that caused the former occupants of the chairs
to flee?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who were these people? What
were they thinking? Where did they come from? Did they speak the same language?</div>
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<b>Keywords: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></b><i>leisure,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">1.</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Write
descriptions of each of the four people who<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>might have occupied the chairs</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2. Write a monologue in which you describe one or
more</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> of the chair’s occupants from the point
of view of on<span style="font-size: small;">e of the chairs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 3. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Reveal the thoughts of someone who had sat in one of the chairs. </span></span></span></div>
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<b>A. </b>At first I was happy to find a delightful coffee
shop in Rome that wasn’t crowded with tourists. But when I settled into the a
chair in front of the shop, my day was ruined when…</div>
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<b>B.</b> Rui finished arranging the four chairs and stepped back
into the shadow of the café awning. He leaned against the door jamb and glanced
along the thoroughfare. He scanned the crowds for the middle aged woman who
would order an espresso and sit in the third chair most days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rui glanced at his watch, 10.50, it wouldn’t
be long.<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Coming Next Week</span></b></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aWyGbChvwa0/UUcTJKFuhXI/AAAAAAAAAh4/ItmUsAN5hf4/s1600/3USED+Boy+Bicycle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aWyGbChvwa0/UUcTJKFuhXI/AAAAAAAAAh4/ItmUsAN5hf4/s200/3USED+Boy+Bicycle.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why isn't this boy wearing clothes?</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another Helpful Source for Inspiration</span></h2>
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For more photos and information not included in this blog,
please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
<i>Reflect and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords;
quotations; either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore”
section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet
Resources” section, and more. Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy (Prufrock Press, 2013), 153 pages, $24.95. </div>
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<b> </b><i>Did you know that the human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than it processes text?</i></div>
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<b>Memories of an
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I saw
the little café in Copenhagen, I knew I had to photograph it. Quickly, before
the image could disappear from my mind’s eye, I aimed my Leica at the
scene and captured it. The lighting was perfect.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Another shot of a storefront?”
remarked my longtime partner and co-author Elizabeth Guy. “You must have a
million of them in your files. Don’t you think you’ve photographed enough of
them?”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Maybe,”
I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>responded. ‘But you never know.
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Six years
later, while we were developing a major project for a publisher of educational
materials, Elizabeth walked into my office and handed me a sheet of paper with
a poem and a photo printed on it. I hadn’t read the poem before that moment,
but I did recognize the photo I’d taken several years earlier.</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">An Outdoor Café in Europe </span></span></b><span style="background: fuchsia; font-weight: normal; mso-highlight: fuchsia;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br />
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I met him at an outdoor café</div>
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In Europe.</div>
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Copenhagen, I think.</div>
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We talked until the sun—</div>
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That’s when he kissed me.</div>
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His breath was sweet:</div>
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When morning came,</div>
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Long distance relationships</div>
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</span>--Elizabeth Guy</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s a
nice little poem,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I like the
ending. By the way, who was your lover with the sweet breath?”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
smiled. “There was no lover. Don’t be such a wise guy.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“By the
way,” I continued,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Isn’t that one of
the photos I took while we were in Copenhagen? The one you complained about?
The same one about which you said, ‘<i>Don’t you think you’ve photographed
enough storefronts?’”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth to
tell, I was beginning to enjoy what I thought would be my moment of triumph.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elizabeth
didn’t miss a beat. “That’s not what I said,” she responded. “That’s <i>your</i>
interpretation. The fact is, what I really said was: ‘I’m glad you took that
photo. I’m sure that some day it’ll provide inspiration for someone to write a
poem or other work.’ I just didn’t know it would be me.” She placed her hands
on her hips and smiled. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Knowing
that it would be futile to contradict her, I grinned at my partner and offered
up the ancient incantation behind which men always hide when they know they’ve
been outmaneuvered once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Yes,
dear. Of course you’re right,” I declared.</div>
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<b>Coming Next Week and Every Week Thereafter</b></div>
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Don't miss our upcoming series of evocative photos and accompanying prompts that are sure to inspire writing both in and out of the classroom.</div>
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photos; keywords; quotations; either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a
“Themes to Explore” section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section;
a special “Internet Resources” section, and more. This collection will help
stimulate discussion that will trigger meaningful writing at many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Includes CD with photos and poems from the
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><i><b> </b></i></div>
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<i><b> Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing</b> </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy ISBN 978-1-61821-023-4, Prufrock Press, 2013, 153 pages,
$24.95. See More and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
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<b>Another Helpful
Source for Inspiration</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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What You See: 99 Photos to Inspire Writing</i> is a collection of photographs
and writing prompts designed to inspire writing. In addition to the many photos
and ideas it presents, this collection includes a section that cites “Ten Ways
to Use Reflect and Write” as well as a second section titled “How Some Teachers
Use Photos to Inspire Writing” An added bonus is a CD with photos and writing
prompts.</div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Write What You See: 99 Photos to Inspire Writing </b>by Hank Kellner, Prufrock Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, 118 pages,
includes CD, $24.95 See more and order at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Write-What-You-See-P791.aspx</a><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">I'm delighted to offer a guest</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">blog</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">by Vivienne Neale, the director of <b>The Writing Retreat</b> and a prolific writer and author. Having earned a Masters degree in Creative Writing, Neale is well qualified to conduct creative writing tutorials via Skype, as well as actual writing retreats from her base in Portugal. You can book a tutorial or retreat by emailing info@writingretreatportugal.com.You can also catch up with Neale's blog at www.writingretreatportugal.com. Her poem "Black Saturday" graphically depicts the carnage inflicted on Great Britain during the opening days of World War II.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Writing Retreat Steps Back in Time</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> I had always been fascinated by World War
II as a kid. It was not surprising really as there were so many people around
me who had direct experience of it. My father was in the navy and I guess he
always encouraged me to read as much as I could about that dreadful period.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> The reading I did as an adolescent has
haunted me. Poems like "No More Hiroshimas" by James Kirkup, for example, have
remained in my mind and if you don’t know the work it is well worth tracking
down. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I
started using this conflict in my poetry when I was a teenager and often return
to it. The video footage now on YouTube is fascinating but it was a
visit to The Museum of London that was the starting point for the poem I share
today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> The Museum is set in Docklands and there
are all kinds of exhibits outlining the tremendous damage that happened in the
East End of London during the 1940s. I was mesmerized by the interviews of
Londoners who had survived the appalling bombing raids that used to happen
night after night all along the banks of the Thames. The Luftwaffe was
determined to knock out the docks which was Britain’s lifeline in so many ways
to the rest of the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> Such suffering and death are a million miles
away from the environment I inhabit at the writing retreat in Portugal but I
just couldn’t forget about what I had seen back in London and it was inevitable
I should write this poem.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> I wanted to write something in memoriam.
The names of the docks are part of the geography, the sociology, the history
and the identity of everyone who lived there and somehow I wanted to bring the
experience of that time back to life. I concentrated on the sounds and smells
of the docks with its variety of goods all housed in massive warehouses and the
desperate scenes firemen found as they arrived to tackle the intense blazes.
Imagine dealing with all different types of fires but always very dangerous and
volatile.</span></div>
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lives and who showed incredible bravery. I just hope I have done them proud.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Black Saturday</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Observers had mistaken a 20 mile
formation of bombers over the East End Docks, for Allied planes.</i><br />
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For more photos and creative prompts that won't be included in this blog, please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.
<i>Reflect and Write</i> contains more than 300 poems and photos; keywords;
quotations; either “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts; a “Themes to Explore”
section; a “Twelve Ways to Inspire Your Students” section; a special “Internet
Resources” section, and more. Includes CD with photos and poems from the book. <i>Reflect
and Write: 300 Poems and Photos to Inspire Writing </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy (Prufrock Press, 2013), 153 pages, $24.95. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7a_0qNXHHKo/UQkCOn_54mI/AAAAAAAAAeg/YYCg4XjDaDU/s1600/Pastuszek-Fish.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a> <span style="font-size: small;"> <b>A Tsunami of Images</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7a_0qNXHHKo/UQkCOn_54mI/AAAAAAAAAeg/YYCg4XjDaDU/s1600/Pastuszek-Fish.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7a_0qNXHHKo/UQkCOn_54mI/AAAAAAAAAeg/YYCg4XjDaDU/s200/Pastuszek-Fish.JPG" width="130" /></a> Thanks to the digital revolution, visual images are everywhere. No matter where we are, we can't escape from them. For those who recognize the potential these images have for
inspiring writing, the rewards are great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Show a group of people a simple photograph of waves beating against the
shore and you’ll be amazed by their responses. Some will recall memories of
seaside childhoods; others will visualize sea stories, shipwrecks, mysteries of
the deep, and more. Still others will venture into the abstract—the world of
simile, metaphor, and personification—perhaps transcribing a bit of themselves.
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Did you ever wonder how some observers would react to a
simple photograph of fish? Here’s how Laura Pastuszek responded to the
photograph she took when she taught English in South Korea during the summer of
2008. An adjunct professor at Towson University, Pastuszek currently teaches a
course titled “Writing and Communications for Teachers.” <img height="1" src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Owner/LOCALS~1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" width="1" /><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Two strangers from two different sands<br />
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ample inspiration for writing. What’s more, when you pair the photo with the
poem, you create additional<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>possibilities for writing. But that’s not all. If you add a relevant
quotation, you’ll have generated a combination that’s hard to beat. Here’s an
example. “<i>Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world
would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and
understand their points of view.” —Mahatma Ghandi</i>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPYIGA7EX6A/UQkMZsVSdCI/AAAAAAAAAfA/jaNRXM93PP8/s1600/Topham-Munch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPYIGA7EX6A/UQkMZsVSdCI/AAAAAAAAAfA/jaNRXM93PP8/s200/Topham-Munch.jpg" width="154" /></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course,
images other than photographs can offer many possibilities for stimulating
creativity and inspiring writing. A teacher of English, drama, and creative
writing at Lake Forest High School in the suburbs of Chicago, Karen Topham has
been indulging in her passions for writing and the arts for thirty years.
Here’s how she responded to Edvard Munch’s 1893 painting, The Scream. </div>
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painting and Topham’s poem provide another example of the power of images to
trigger creative responses. As always, if you add a relevant quotation, you’ll
create even more possibilities. In this example, you could cite these lines by
Jean-Paul Sartre. <i>“Anything, anything would be better than this agony of
mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never
hurts quite enough.” </i></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your own writing,
teaching students at any level, or conducting workshops or seminars for others,
you’ll find that photographs and other images are powerful aids to eliciting
creative responses and inspiring writing. And when you add relevant quotations,
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<b>Foreign Fish</b> and <b>Scream </b>originally appeared in<i> Reflect and
Write: 300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing </i>by Hank Kellner and
Elizabeth Guy (Prufrock Press, 2013). Now more than ever we must take advantage of the power of graphic images to help inspire writing. Taken together, the more than 300 poems, photographs, and quotations included in this book will help stimulate creative ideas that will evoke meaningful writing not only by students in grades 7-12 and up, but also by writers of all ages. See sample pages, read reviews, and buy now at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx">http://www.prufrock.com/Reflect-and-Write-P1752.aspx</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e_xY1zKXK88/UKTKaWxkQgI/AAAAAAAAAd8/-0enNKb4rpI/s1600/REFLECT+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e_xY1zKXK88/UKTKaWxkQgI/AAAAAAAAAd8/-0enNKb4rpI/s400/REFLECT+COVER.jpg" width="400" /></a>Scheduled for publication early next year<i>, Reflect & Write: 200 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing </i>is a unique combination of poetry and photos that is sure to be a welcome addition to every English teacher's collection.<br />
This upcoming anthology contains works created by twenty-six high school and junior high school students, twenty-three teachers, and twelve other writers nationwide.<br />
In addition
to the poems and photos, <i>Reflect & Write</i> contains a Foreword by Joe
Milner, Ph.D., Professor of English Education, Wake Forest University; an
Introduction; “Twelve Ways To Inspire Students;” “Thirteen Themes to Explore;” and a listing of twenty Internet
resources of interest to students and teachers. What’s more, many of the
poem/photo combinations present “Inspiration” or “Challenge” prompts,
significant quotations, and keywords designed to inspire writing.
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<i> <b>For more information visit</b><a href="http://www.prufrock.com/reflect-and-write-p1752.aspx"><b> </b>www.prufrock.com/reflect-and-write-p1752.aspx</a> </i><br />
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<i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by <b>Prufrock Press.</b> Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a>
now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection
contains intriguing photographs and a wide variety of inventive
writing
prompts to motivate students to write better compositions.
Thousands of teachers have used this unique publication to help inspire
their students.
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Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator
who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct
associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i>
includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers
nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11,
Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Copyright, <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Hank Kellner, 2012</i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439972021658319544.post-64146990042988506652012-08-08T10:58:00.000-07:002012-08-08T11:35:57.488-07:00A New Collection of Poetry and Photographs<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Prufrock Press To Publish Unique Collection of Poetry and Photos</b></div>
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Prufrock Press is known as "The Nation's Leading Resource for Special Needs, Gifted, and Advanced Learners." You can visit this fine publishing house at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/">www.prufrock.com</a>. Elizabeth Guy and I are proud to announce that Prufrock has selected our latest work, <i>Reflect and Write: 270 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing,</i> for publication in February, 2013.<br />
Here's what Joe Milner, Ph.D., Director of English Education, Wake Forest University, wrote in his introduction to the work. "This arrangement of poignant poems, vital pictures, and compelling quotations from such literary giants as Voltaire, Wordsworth, Smith, and others is so beautifully crafted that I hesitate to write an introduction to the work."<br />
Contributed by twenty-three students, twenty-three teachers, and thirteen other writers and photographers nationwide, <i>Reflect and Write </i>weds original poems<i> </i>to beautiful photographs that are sure to inspire not only spirited class discussion, but also interesting and exciting written works. What's more, significant quotations and keywords accompany each of the poems.<br />
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<b>A Sample from <i>Reflect and Write</i></b></div>
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<i>"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves</i><b><i> </i></b><i>undisturbed.</i><b><i> </i></b><i>Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."</i><br />
<i> -Hans Margolius</i></div>
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reflections on the water's surface</div>
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seen through the water's eyes,</div>
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disfigured,</div>
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its image rippling.</div>
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A toss,</div>
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a silent splash.</div>
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Something so powerless,</div>
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small,</div>
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makes such a big impact.</div>
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Its image,</div>
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crafted on the water's surface, </div>
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a movement in the still water,</div>
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shattering the cool surface of the shimmering lake.</div>
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You wave,</div>
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And your reflection waves back.</div>
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This person you see in the rippling water is</div>
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Distorted.</div>
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Changed.</div>
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-Sarah Marlin </div>
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<b> Keywords</b> </div>
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<i>IMAGE, REFLECTIONS, DISTORTION, SHIMMER</i></div>
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Sarah Marlin was a thirteen-year-old student in Tinmah Steinman's class at Park Day School in Oakland, California when she wrote "reflections on the water's surface."</div>
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<b>Another Excellent Publication from Prufrock Press</b></div>
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<i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by <b>Prufrock Press.</b> Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a>
now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection
contains intriguing photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing
prompts to motivate students to write better compositions. Thousands of teachers have used this unique publication to help inspire their students.
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator
who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct
associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i>
includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers
nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11,
Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright, <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Hank Kellner, 2012</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439972021658319544.post-82134043692736714662012-04-28T06:57:00.001-07:002012-04-28T06:57:49.048-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Use Images To Inspire Writing</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2AZ9PJTpzY0/T2nr5EN8KDI/AAAAAAAAAco/1eymwvRYXu0/s1600/611+CAUTION+SIGN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="139" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2AZ9PJTpzY0/T2nr5EN8KDI/AAAAAAAAAco/1eymwvRYXu0/s200/611+CAUTION+SIGN.jpg" width="200" /></a>There's probably no end to the number of ideas you can inspire in your students by using signs as writing prompts, or triggers.<br />
For example, you can ask your students to respond to specific words found in signs similar to the two shown here.</div>
Ask your students what comes to mind when they think of the words <i>caution, gates, walk, weapons, concealed, </i>and/or <i>prohibited.</i> Then encourage your budding authors to use the ideas they generated as a basis for written compositions.<br />
Another interesting activity would be to combine several words to form sentences that would serve as the opening lines of written compositions. Students will enjoy writing conclusions to sentences like "I knew that if I were to walk under the gates, I'd regret doing so. Even so, I..." or "Although he was carrying concealed weapons, John thought that he could get past the security point, but..."<br />
Of course, you can always download the images shown here to use in your classroom, but you can also ask the students to create their own images.<br />
In today's society almost everyone has the ability to capture digital images of every description. Your students are no exception. And the best part is that they can easily share these images with their peers, either in the classroom or on Facebook.<br />
Finally, if you've used photos to inspire writing, and if you'd like to share your ideas with others, I'd love to hear from you. <br />
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<b>PRUFROCK PRESS AND <i>WRITE WHAT YOU SEE</i> </b></div>
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Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div>
Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Copyright 2012 by Hank Kellner</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439972021658319544.post-89819827532096572192012-01-02T09:34:00.000-08:002012-01-04T05:49:52.767-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5dFhwQdn2Uk/TwHbSKZKnDI/AAAAAAAAAbY/hS6p8fYNvqo/s1600/PHOTO+1+BY+HANK+KELLNER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5dFhwQdn2Uk/TwHbSKZKnDI/AAAAAAAAAbY/hS6p8fYNvqo/s200/PHOTO+1+BY+HANK+KELLNER.jpg" width="171" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>We Have a Winner!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It wasn't easy, but we were finally able to select the winner of our Great American Reflections Photo Contest. A student in Timnah Steinman's class at the Park Day School Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Sarah Marlin walked off with the honors for her poem, "Reflections on the Water's Surface."</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Consisting of just twenty lines, the poem describes the image created when a pebble disturbs the surface of the water. "You wave," she writes, "and your reflection waves back./ The person you see in the water is/Distorted/Changed."</div><div style="text-align: left;"> We've amended the working title of our manuscript to reflect the title of Sarah's poem, and we've placed the poem on the first page of the work, which will be published by<a href="http://prufrock.com/"> PRUFROCK PRESS</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> We won't be publishing Sarah's poem here until the book sees the light of day, but we have included the photo that accompanies it. Perhaps the photo will inspire your students to create their own works of poetry or prose.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<b>Don't Be a Bully!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-acICrQRI0aY/TwHknY1TaSI/AAAAAAAAAbw/tF_hSaR2DQc/s1600/447+BULLYING+ZONE+SIGN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-acICrQRI0aY/TwHknY1TaSI/AAAAAAAAAbw/tF_hSaR2DQc/s200/447+BULLYING+ZONE+SIGN.jpg" width="184" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J1Fe9_sHB54/TwHhzFeqtiI/AAAAAAAAAbk/-l07niIpKDE/s1600/447+BULLYING+ZONE+SIGN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a> I don't think you'll ever find a sign<b> </b>identical to the one shown here. That's because<b> </b>after I photographed the "Do Not Enter" sign, I used Arc Soft Photo Studio to add the words <i>BULLYING ZONE</i> to the image.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> I think that the possibilities for using this image to inspire writing in your classroom are almost limitless. That's because it's almost a sure thing that one or more of your students either is or has been harassed by a bully.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Here's a suggestion. Download the photo and use it as a trigger to inspire your students to express their feelings about bullying in writing, either as poetry or prose. Point out that their writings will be voluntary and anonymous, and that they <u>may not use names</u> in their compositions. You'll probably be surprised at some of the responses your receive. Obviously, you won't assign a grade for this activity.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s1600/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s320/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439972021658319544.post-41536485938287082162011-12-12T08:45:00.000-08:002011-12-26T11:06:25.004-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0skNlyP2gKQ/TuYhQ2gt6MI/AAAAAAAAAbM/tnxs5WnnGGI/s1600/524+bulb+reflect.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0skNlyP2gKQ/TuYhQ2gt6MI/AAAAAAAAAbM/tnxs5WnnGGI/s200/524+bulb+reflect.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>The Great All-American <i>Reflections </i>Poetry Contest</b></div><br />
Thanks to everyone who submitted poems to our <i>Reflections </i>Poetry Contest. We received quite a few entries. It hasn't been easy to select a winner, but we think it's going to be a poem submitted by one of Tinmah Steinman's students at the Park Day School in Oakland, California. We'll announce the final decision during the first or second week of January.<br />
In the meantime, here's another photo that's sure to inspire students to use their imaginations to create either prose or poetry. The photo at the left, above, shows a small incandescent light bulb reflected in a pane of glass at night. Feel free to download it and use it in your classrooms. By the way, you'll find many more photos that can inspire your students at <a href="http://canstockphoto.com/stock-image-portfolio/hankpix?r=119965">MY STOCK PHOTOS</a>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Find Out How Harrison Corbett Uses Photos with His Students </b><br />
<b>Here's an Excerpt from His Website</b><b></b></div><br />
<div class="style41"> You know, on our digital cameras or in drawers at home, most of us have pictures that may not ever make it into our scrapbooks or photo albums. To me, these types of photos potentially might make excellent writing prompts. Here at my website, I feature a page of<a href="http://www.corbettharrison.com/photo.html"> <b>some favorite photos</b></a> that are neither in a photo album or a scrapbook; I think they're all really great photos that would serve nicely to inspire my own writing...or they would inspire stories from my students. (My students really like to make-up fictional stories based on my photos or photos they obtain from friends, do yours?)</div><div class="style41"> After I show my kiddos <a href="http://www.corbettharrison.com/photo.html"><b>my online photos</b></a> that I think would make interesting writing prompts for me (and/or I show them <b><a href="http://writingfix.com/classroom_tools/picture_prompts.htm">WritingFix's Photo Prompt Page</a></b>), I challenge them to look for two or three photos at home and to bring them in (or scans of them) as possible writing prompts for their own notebooks. Usually, I ask them to show a friend the two or three photos they've brought in, and I ask them to share a little bit about the story behind the photograph. I then ask them to ask their friend, "Which one do you think I should write about first?" </div><span class="style411"> Students tape the photo they've chosen onto a blank notebook page (I have double-sided tape available for them). Then, they spend 15 minutes free-writing about the image. I don't want them to necessarily simply </span><i>tell</i><span class="style411"> me what's in their photo; I'd much rather have them </span><i>show</i><span class="style411"> a memory or idea they associate with the image. To show them that kind of thinking, I share with them two photos and free writes from my own writer's notebook. </span><br />
<span class="style411"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Corbett Harrison is a teacher and educational consultant based in Nevada.</span> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Now You Can Find Out More about Virtual Poetry Clubs</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Here's Some Interesting Information from Lindsey Wright</span></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> Poetry is not often a common interest among children. Furthermore, modern students increasingly prefer </span><a href="http://www.onlinecollegeclasses.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">online classes</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> and educational platforms that allow for optimum agency and individual creativity. Basically, students today prefer to entertain themselves with electronic devices. Thus, in order to engage students of today, it is helpful to channel knowledge through technological venues such as a virtual poetry club.</span><br />
Writing a poem on a piece of paper and perhaps sharing it later with a friend does not provide the instant reward that children now expect from daily life. With a virtual poetry club, students can talk about their creations in real time. In this medium students can communicate instantly and give feedback to others while using their analytical skills to discuss style, themes, meters and more.<br />
Another upside to virtual poetry clubs is that children can interact in them between other online activities, such as gaming and watching television shows. It may motivate them to be more active in the club because they do not have to abandon their electronics for a pencil and a piece of paper.<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> Children need to learn to experience poetry before picking apart the technical details. This makes them </span><a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED390292&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED390292"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">more attuned to the creative</span></a> aspect of poetry. Teaching students to appreciate poetry can give them an advantage in school for reading and writing, and is one creative way to introduce students of today to the beauty of poetry in a way that is more palatable to them.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Based in Seattle, Washington, Lindsey Wright is fascinated with the potential of emerging educational technologies, particularly the online school, to transform the landscape of learning. She writes about web-based learning, electronic and mobile learning, and the possible future of education.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s1600/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s320/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95 </div><br />
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</div> Soon to be published<i> </i>by<i> </i>Prufrock Press,<i> Reflections </i>is a collection of poems and photos intended primarily for use in classrooms . Contributors to this work include students, teachers, and others from all over the country. Foremost among these contributors are students and teachers at Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Illinois. The work will include an introduction by Joe Miller, Ph.D, Director of English Education at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<br />
One fine example of a poem included in this unique work is LFHS teacher Dr. Mara Dukats' "Grandmother." In addition to this poem and others by the same author, <i>Reflections </i>will include poems by LFHS teachers Amy Lyons and Karen Topham, as well as contributions by seven LFHS students. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i></i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Grandmother</span></b></div><br />
Your furrowed hands, spotted with the years,<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">your fingernails, so subtly earthen </div><div class="MsoNormal">your slender, crooked fingers busy,</div><div class="MsoNormal">as we sit at the edge of the grove,</div><div class="MsoNormal">pitting harvested cherries with bobby pins.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Anchored on the stump, you’re poised,</div><div class="MsoNormal">cradling between your knees the metal pot</div><div class="MsoNormal">into which drop, our sour cherries.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The pot fills unexpectedly (for me)</div><div class="MsoNormal">though you have always known </div><div class="MsoNormal">how simply one can fill the years</div><div class="MsoNormal">with marmelade. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt;">-Mara Dukats</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We're Still on the Lookout for More Poems</b></span> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"> If you and/or your students</span> would<span style="font-size: small;"> like to submit poems for possible publication in <i>Reflections</i>, please contact me through this blog with your e-mail address and the word REFLECTIONS in your message.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Where Can You Find Photos?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b>If you need photos for inspiration and would like to receive up to three from my files for free, please click on "My Stock Photos" (above, right).<b> </b>Then just let me know the titles of the photos you want to receive. I'll send you .jpgs you can use for yourself or in the classroom. </span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>PRUFROCK PRESS AND <i>WRITE WHAT YOU SEE</i> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s1600/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s320/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
Photos Copyright © Hank Kellner, 2011</div><div style="text-align: left;">"Grandmother" Copyright © Mara Dukats, 2011 </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>An Elementary School Student</b>'<b>s Poem about Grandmother</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Erick Moore is a student at the South Elementary School, Muhlenberg, Kentucky. We matched his poem, " A Grandmother's Heart," with Cindy Nadal's photo to create an image that is both pleasing and inspirational. This combination will be included in our upcoming anthology, <i>Reflections</i>: <i>A Collection of Photos, Poetry, and More,</i> which will be published by Prufrock Press. If you or your students would like to contribute poetry to this work, please contact me. At this writing, the manuscript is complete, but we can always find room for more poems by students and/or teachers at all levels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Together, the poem and accompanying photo are sure to stimulate class discussion that can produce ideas that will stimulate students' imaginations and trigger many different kinds of writing. Of course, it's also possible to use either the poem or the photo alone to inspire writing. You'll discover more information in earlier entries to this blog. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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A Grandmother's Heart<br />
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A grandmother's heart is a special place<br />
You can read what it holds <br />
By the smile on her face.<br />
Within her heart memories are dear:<br />
Memories of grandchildren,<br />
Laughter and cheer.<br />
Within her heart her grandchild will live,<br />
And her heart will not burst<br />
For it holds people dear.<br />
Forever my Grandma,<br />
Forever my friend.<br />
-Eric Moore<br />
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Feel free to download this and any other photo you discover in the archives of this blog for use in your classroom. To see even more photos, click on MY PORTFOLIO, top right. And to read my series of ten articles on using photographs to inspire writing, go to <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner">www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/kellner</a>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Don't Miss Tim San Pedro's Poem and Photo! </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>You Can See Them at Frank Holes' STAR TEACHING Website.</b></div><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Frank Holes, Jr. has published Timothy San Pedro's poem "A Full Purple Crown" in STAR TEACHING. To read the poem and see San Pedro's accompanying photo, go to <a href="http://www.starteaching.com/Features_for_Teachers_7oct2.htm" target="_blank"> www.starteaching.com/Features_<wbr></wbr>for_Teachers_7oct2.htm</a>. and click on "New! Hank Kellner's Using Photography To Inspire Writing."</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>PRUFROCK PRESS AND <i>WRITE WHAT YOU SEE</i> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s1600/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jexFoo6OiB4/Tqg16tcLvNI/AAAAAAAAAYw/LDAJfleZoDw/s320/FINAL+WWYS+COVER.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
Copyright © Hank Kellner, 2011</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sEuxu8PxvTQ/TqLh-mdZvKI/AAAAAAAAAYY/I43IaTtjrAA/s1600/286+ARROW+ON+STREET.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sEuxu8PxvTQ/TqLh-mdZvKI/AAAAAAAAAYY/I43IaTtjrAA/s400/286+ARROW+ON+STREET.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> When you and your students create keywords related to photographs, the possibilities for writing interesting poetry and/or prose are greatly enhanced. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> For example, if you show the photo of an arrow painted on a macadam surface to students at almost any level and ask them to cite words that come to mind, they are sure to respond eagerly. Here are just a few keywords related to the photo shown above : (a) forward, (b) direction, (c) traffic (d) pointing, (e) street, (f) flat, (g) angular, (h), arrow, (i), sign, (j), smudged), (k) road.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> Using the keywords they've cited, most students should be able to develop interesting written works. But for those who need even more prompting, a <u>possible opening line</u> is sure to work, as in "When Cody saw the <i>sign</i> in his headlights, he knew..." or "Because Angelica wasn't sure what <i>direction</i> to take..."</div><div style="text-align: left;"> As always, you are free to download this photo for use in your classroom. And if it succeeds in helping you or your students write a poem, I would love to hear from you. Please read the preceding entry in this blog for information on how to submit poetry for REFLECTIONS, an anthology to be published by Prufrock Press.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are two images that can easily inspire either poetry or prose. Feel free to download them and use them in your classroom or with your writing group. If you like, you can easily dream up a few keywords or possible opening lines to fire up you students' imaginations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> By the way, when you scroll through the archives of this blog, you'll discover many more photos you can use to inspire writing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> But that's not all. You'll also discover information about <i>Reflections</i>, a collection of poems and photos that Prufrock Press will publish during the Spring, 2014. Please visit Prufrock at <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/"> www.prufrock.com</a> to discover more about this outstanding publisher<i> </i>of<i> </i>educational materials<i>.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i> Reflections </i>will present a collection of poems and photos created by students and their teachers nationwide. Designed to inspire writing in the classroom at several levels, this work will also present a few of my own poems, along with those written by Elizabeth Guy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> At this writing, the manuscript is complete. <i>But I'm always on the lookout for more poems to add to the work. </i> If you or any of your students would like to submit poems using any of the photos in this blog as inspiration, please contact me ASAP at hankpix@gmail.com.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> If your poetry is already included in the manuscript and you'd like to submit new work inspired by the photos in this blog, I'd be delighted to hear from you. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>PRUFROCK PRESS AND <i>WRITE WHAT YOU SEE</i> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Published by Cottonwood Press in 2009, <i>Write What You See</i>: 99 <i>Photos</i> <i>To Inspire Writing</i> by Hank Kellner is now marketed by Prufrock Press. Please visit <a href="http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641">http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1641</a> now to order this fine book. This thought-provoking collection contains photographs and a wide variety of inventive writing prompts to motivate students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> Written by a veteran of the Korean War and retired educator who has served as an English Department supervisor and adjunct associate professor of English at the community college level, <i>Write What you See</i> includes a CD-Rom and a special section telling how teachers nationwide use photos to inspire writing. 118 pages, 8 1/2 X 11, Softbound, ISBN 978-1-877673-83-2, Grades 7-12, $24.95 </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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