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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
Missed Phone Calls, Ben S. Sherbacow
Missed Phone Calls, Ben S. Sherbacow
Student Publications
A poem about hope and reconnection.
Letters To Mr. Carter, Jasmin S. Eddy
Letters To Mr. Carter, Jasmin S. Eddy
Student Publications
This final project synthesized discussion and learning from four different books: "To Teach: The Journey in Comics" by W. Ayers and R. Alexander-Tanner, "Musician and Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education" by P. S. Campbell, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by N. Postman and C. Weingartner, and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by P. Freire. Through a series of letters to a teacher, Mr. Carter, the letter writers demonstrate the important ideas presented in each of the books.
Unread Letters To My Mother, Pamela J. Thompson
Unread Letters To My Mother, Pamela J. Thompson
Student Publications
The poem "Unread Letters to My Mother" is a meditation on dream and memory and how PTSD brought on by childhood trauma has effected those things within the speaker's life. Each of the seven sections are addressed to the speaker's mother, but the reader knows these are things which are left unsaid, in the darkness, as the clarity and insight they provide into the speaker's life is perhaps too overwhelming for the figure of the mother to process.
The Empath’S Travel Log, Pamela J. Thompson
The Empath’S Travel Log, Pamela J. Thompson
Student Publications
Cynthia Marie Hoffman Studner said of the poem, "This is an ambitious poem that delivers on empathy, just as promised. The poem establishes a metaphor of a “taught thread” that pulls together the traveler and an “orange-coated mutt” spotted in Italy, and this thread weaves throughout the poem as one of continual and deep connection with others. One wonders of the empath’s fate, especially when the poem begins with the story of wives cremated beside their dead husbands. What are the implications of this empathy in terms of its being something the speaker must bear? At times, it is guilt, …
The Trials Of A New Teacher, Diego A. Rocha
The Trials Of A New Teacher, Diego A. Rocha
Student Publications
Tim, a new teacher, faces challenges as he works towards changing the environment in a high school music program.
Notes From Mrs. Hadgu's Class: Conceptualizing Music Education Curriculum For A Changing World, Logan B. Santiago
Notes From Mrs. Hadgu's Class: Conceptualizing Music Education Curriculum For A Changing World, Logan B. Santiago
Student Publications
How can we conceptualize curriculum and school knowledge to better address important questions of social change, contingency of knowledge, life in mediated worlds, and inequalities? To answer this question I wrote fictional stories from students about their favorite moments from their 8th grade music class. Each account deals with a specific activity or instance in which the teacher included social change and/or student centered knowledge in the curriculum. The explanation at the end of the accounts details the reasons for creating each activity and the relation of the stories to texts utilized in class.
Car Rides With You, Rachel L. Martinelli
Statistic, Michael A. Deleon Jr.
Epidermis, Victoria A. Blaisdell
Alligators I Have Known, Taylor L. Andrews
Lost Boy, Pamela J. Thompson
Poorly Drawn Earth, Victoria A. Blaisdell
To My Father, Victoria J. Reynolds
Pluto, Rachel L. Martinelli
The Year Of The Apocalypse, Pamela J. Thompson
Aromantic, Rachel L. Martinelli
Battlefield Gothic, Anonymous Author
Lamprocapnos Spectabilis, Victoria J. Reynolds
February, Victoria J. Reynolds
It’S Not Something We Speak Of, Tucker B. Snow
Playing House, Taylor L. Andrews
Dancing With The Dark, Lori A. Atinizian
Freshwater, Rachel L. Martinelli
Graham, Haley G. Weaver
The Touch, Christiana L. Fattorini
The Fall, Valerie C. Nigg
Sustained, Drew T. Ciminera
Sweet Nothings, Danielle R. Dattolo
Drifting, Nancy J. Clark
The Eyes Have It, Julia A. Rentsch