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Book Club Questions & Events
EVENTS Spend a cozy half-hour mingling, getting your book signed, and enjoying a glass of bubbly at these free events. Also, attendees can enter a drawing for a copy of The Uncommon AP Club. The Lakewood Bookstore: Invitation Bookshop: BOOK CLUB QUESTIONS Suggestions for a successful book club: Question Options: *Click on “contact” to ask your…
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Tracking in Schools Inevitable
Origins of my Educator’s Edge: When I was a sophomore at a Department of Defense high school in Germany, I struggled with geometry. My brain hadn’t fully developed to make abstraction and spatial reasoning easy. Plus, I’d had a lousy experience with an algebra teacher who’d repeatedly made fun of my name. Let’s just say,…
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winter fedorewriter news
How to Juggle Multiple Demands in 30 Days Finding time and energy to keep working on my third novel, 400-Foot Drop, is taxing my daily writing routine. “What writing routine?” I’ve wondered lately. Here’s what’s happening instead. I’ve been: I feel incredibly fortunate to have people that are partnering with me on formatting novel #2 and…
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Are adults as boring and corny as 6th graders think?
When I recently presented about the writing process in two sixth grade classrooms, the students had a lot to say about writing fiction. I told the students that according to the International Screenwriters Association, powerful storytelling consists of an entertaining story, a sense of voice, dialogue, and authenticity. The students added a few more attributes…
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ethical consumerism … possible?
At least two decades ago, my sister and I were driving from her house for a weekend road trip, and one of her car tires had a slow leak. “I’m not stopping here because I heard on the news that they denied a franchise to a black man,” Karen said, as she pointed to a…
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