Drawing the Line: Creative Writing Through the Visual and Performing Arts - Softcover

Gilmore, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966323386 ISBN 13: 9780966323382

Publisher: HEINEMANN, 1999

Synopsis

What are the connections between composing with language and other forms of creative expression? Barry Gilmore'sDrawing the Line provides a fascinating answer. Better than that, he provides simple, engaging ways to generate powerful student writing by describing how to engage secondary students 7-12 in various artistic mediums.

The arts provide a valuable and much-overlooked tool for helping young people to improve their writing. Through easy, inviting activities in the visual arts, music, and drama, Gilmore leads students to explore a host of creative approaches to composing. In the process, students will also develop a heightened sensitivity to the mediums they explore.

Each chapter focuses on one genre of art. Individual units offer discussion for the teacher, a simple artistic activity, creative writing exercises, and examples of students' written work. All chapters provide imaginative hands-on opportunities in the arts that have been tested with thousands of students. Nor does Drawing the Line assume or require that teachers have prior experience with any medium.

We haven't come across a richer, more enjoyable way to teach writing.

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About the Author

BARRY GILMORE presently teaches English and writing classes at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee. He also directs writing seminars and has published poetry and nonfiction articles. He has worked with arts organizations around the country and has also toured the nation as a professional folk musician.

About this edition

• Publisher: HEINEMANN
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0966323386
• ISBN 13: 9780966323382
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152