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Latest from the AWM Education Team
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Write In Extended Curriculum
Help your students empower themselves with our captivating Write In Extended Curriculum. This curriculum is thoughtfully crafted to cultivate student voices and develop critical writing skills. Explore the writing process all while delving into the historical and cultural context with the following curricula:
Teacher-designed, this unit plan celebrates all student’s unique experiences and encourages students to create their own writing identities. By centering student identity and creative expression, students have the opportunity to cultivate their voices and develop critical writing skills that can be transferred across a variety of contexts.
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This unit plan explores Black history & writing with engaging, flexible, dynamic, and meaningful instructional materials and learning experiences that provide students with opportunities to explore their identities, learn with and from their peers, and use the beauty and power of Black writers to inspire their own creative stories.
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Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, Exploring the Writing Process with Primary Source Materials complements classroom writing instruction with activities using primary source materials from the Library of Congress’s digital collections that inspire, motivate, and empower students to write.
In partnership with the Great Books Foundation, we have created a range of activities for grades 6 and up that bring their Shared Inquiry™ method of learning together with the American Voices and My America exhibits.
