Families Writing: 2nd Edition
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Book Overview
Here is a book that speaks to everyone interested in creative writing experiences that will draw a family together for the moment and across generations. Families should be writingrecollections, whims, stories of love and pain and laughter, the troubling, sad, or silly things that together make your family richly different from all the rest. Family stuff. Important stuff. In this very practical book, Stillman details why and how to record words that go straight to the heartthe simple, vital words that will speak to those you care most about and to their descendants many years from now. The real family treasures, writes Stillman, are those made of words, not dusty artifacts. And he proves it, with example after example of what happens when families write together, along with scores of ideas for activities that will generate your own keepsake writing. The first edition of Families Writing sold widely, and many copies were picked up by teachers who have successfully used the Families Writing approach in the classroom. In this second edition, therefore, Stillman has added an entirely new chapter of suggestions for teachers.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0966323300
ISBN13:9780966323306
Release Date:June 1998
Publisher:Heinemann Educational Books
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.9" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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A gem for families and teachers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This is a real gem of a book. I love reading and writing. I teach English as a foreign language, and I have dipped into this book time and time again for ideas and inspiration. This book has lots of excellent ideas for using writing to communicate between generations within a family and how to build communities of writers, or just how to have fun with various writing games. Author Peter Stillman is clearly a good writer himself: unpretentious and perspicacious, with a great sense of humour which is never far from the surface, especially in Stillman's own pen drawings; yet the tone is sometimes moving (as in the letter the author penned to his recently deceased father). A profound book that examines the power and value of communicating via writing.
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