Nancy S. Gorrell leads educators into her own decades-long journey of becoming a teacher who writes and who nurtures students and colleagues as writers and co-learners. The chronology moves through the author's evolution as a creative writer, a teacher-writer, and then a teacher-artist, all the while writing and learning with her students in English classes and reaching out to students and teachers across the curriculum.
The book serves as both an inspirational account of Gorrell's personal story of becoming and as a guidebook for teachers to reflect on and create their own analogous story of becoming. Each chapter includes an illustrative teaching story or poem and the author's reflections on her evolving journey, along with model student writing intended to both instruct and inspire readers and their students in their own writing. It also contains reflective exercises for teachers to work through and teaching activities that they can use in their classes. An additional feature of the book is its attention to writing across the curriculum and its inclusion of interdisciplinary models and applications. The book incorporates the work of the author as well as that of her many collaborators, including a number of interdisciplinary contributors and former students.
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Nancy Gorrell Imprint: University of Toronto Press Country of Publication: Canada Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 650g ISBN:9781487566579 ISBN 10: 1487566573 Series:Frameworks for Writing Pages: 277 Publication Date:18 March 2025 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Preface Preliminaries Prologue Foreword Introduction Section One: The Teacher Self 1. Works in Progress 2. It Takes Creativity and Windows 3. It Takes Courage and Heart 4. Knowing Where You Come From: Writing Memories 5. Discarding Baggage: Reframing Myths 6. Knowing Where You’re Going: The American High School 7. Knowing Your Students: Times of Transition and Transformation 8. Knowing the Creatively “Gifted” Student 9. Balancing Freedom and Structure: The Paradox of Boundaries 10. Breaking Boundaries Within Your Discipline Section Two: The Writer Self 11. Discovering the Creative Writer Within 12. Discovering the Poet Within 13. Discovering the Professional Writer Within 14. Discovering the Power of Audience 15. Discovering the Creative Process Section Three: The Teacher-Writer Self 16. Discovering the Teacher-Writer Within 17. Writing About Your Students and Your Discipline Section Four: The Teacher-Artist Self 18. Discovering the Teacher-Artist Within Epilogue: “The Students in the Window” Conclusion Afterword: On Musings Notes on Contributors References Appendix A: Poetry Watch and Hawk Watch Resources (Chapter 2) Appendix B: “The Weight of Nothing,” by Amy Uyematsu (Chapters 3 and 8) Author Index Subject Index
Nancy S. Gorrell is an award-winning English teacher, author, and poet.
