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Table of Contents:

• Imagination
• 1. Got Warts?
• 2. You Picked A Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille
• 3. Wanted: An Heir for a $375,000 Estate
• 4. "Bearly" Work
• 5. A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
• Lists
• 6. What I Know/Don't Know: In Search of Research Topics
• 7. Are You More Like?
• 8. Promises, Promises, Promises
• 9. 100 Things to Do Before You Die!
• 10. What's It Like to Wait?
• 11. What Would You Do?
• 12. Who Is an Expert?
• 13. I Remember
• 14. Heaven on Earth
• 15. Darwin Awards!
• Memories
• 16. The Truth Will Set You Free
• 17. A Matter of Choice

• 18. Even Sick Days Have Good Memories
• 19. Have You Ever Had One of Those Days
• 20. Ira Sleeps Over
• 21. Dead Poet's Society
• 22. Any Great Aunts Out There?
• 23. A Most Unforgettable Character
• 24. Remembering Relatives
• 25. Dancing Memories
• 26. All the Places to Love
• 27. Treasured Treasures
• 28. Do You Speak My Language?
• 29. Remembering?
• 30. What is Your Literacy Autobiography?
• 31. Bowl After Bowl of Chicken Soup
• 32. Don't Worry, Be Happy
• Self-Discovery
• 33. What I Know
• 34. Art, Like Morality, Consists of Drawing the Line Somewhere!
• 35. A Gift From the Heart
• 36. Examining One's Life
• 37. It is All in the Eye of the Beholder
• 38. Living Life for All Its Worth
• 39. My Achilles' Heel
• 40. Introducing a New Me
• 41. What's Your Fortune? A Fun-Story Starter
• 42. Celebrations: "You're in Charge!"
• 43. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
• 44. One Hit Wonder
• 45. Avocations
• 46. What Were You Afraid of?
• 47. Face Your Fears
• 48. Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken
• 49. "Sweet Dreams"
• 50. The Choice of Your Life
• Writer's Craft
• 51. Hats Off to You
• 52. "... And Another Thing"
• 53. Reading with "Author Glasses" On, or "Hey! I Could Do That!"
• 54. I Wanna: Persuasive Writing
• 55. Things Aren't Always What They Seem
• 56. I've Got the Blues
• 57. Poems for Two Voices
• 58. Word Poems and the Content Areas
• 59. CoCo's Voice
• 60. Have I Got a Story for You!
• 61. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
• 62. How Lame!
• 63. Come Take a Free Write
• 64. Ridiculous Rhymes
• 65. Love Your Lemon
• 66. Hoot's Diner: Place with Personality
• 67. She Did WHAT?
• 68. Famous First Pages: A Syntax Study
• 69. "Round and Round We Go ..."
• 70. Into the Forest: Imitating the Writer's Craft
• 71. Do You Hear What I Hear?
• 72. Five Senses
• 73. When I Was Young in the Mountains
• 74. Photo Memories
• 75. Sweeter Than Kisses
• 76. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
• 77. "Schoolsville"
• 78. Get in the Picture
• 79. My Favorite Place
• 80. The Most Beautiful, Exciting, or Exotic Place I've Ever Been
• 81. My Town May Not Have "Big Shoulders," But It Has What Chicago Can Only Dream Of
• 82. Why I Prefer ...
• 83. How Creative Can You Get? Crazy, Mixed-Up Story Starters
• 84. Chasing Rainbows
• 85. From Mrs. Malaprop to Archie Bunker to ...: Malapropisms
• 86. The Bite of Satire
• 87. For the Love of SPAM!
• Ties to Literature
• 88. Gift from the Heart
• 89. What? Me Scared?
• 90. Is "No Man an Island" or ...?
• 91. Machiavelli's Descendents
• 92. Stories for Bear: Launching the Reading and Writing Workshops
• 93. Famous First Lines
• 94. Dear Author
• 95. Talk Geometry to Me
• 96. What's Your Sign
• 97. Word Connections
• 98. Rubber Band Words
• 99. Triangle Personality
• 100. Vertex and Perimeter
• 101. A Diamond is for Reflecting
• 102. Number Personalities
• 103. Polygon Dialogue
• 104. Can You Build It?
• 105. Pattern Block Puzzles
• 106. Wii-Mote Magic
• 107. Listen to Your Body
• 108. How Can the Easter Bunny Lay Eggs?
• 109. Creating the World Anew
• 110. Creature Features
• 111. Here We Go 'Round
• 112. Shark or Dolphin? You Decide
• 113. What the World Be Like Without
• 114. Take a Haiku Hike!
• 115. Nature's Treasures
• 116. And Just Who's to Blame?
• 117. Take a Ride on the Magic School Bus
• 118. Seeing Through the Eyes of Another
• 119. Tell Me What's So Important
• 120. What Makes a Human Being Human?
• 121. What's Next? Extinguishing Our World?
• 122. Looking the Other Way: What's It Take to Be Our Brothers' and Sisters' Keeper?
• 123. "I'll Never Forget Where I Was When ..."
• 124. Capturing Personal, Local, National and International History in a Time Capsule
• 125. Power of the Pen
• 126. Radical Reactions
• 127. I'll Take You There
• 128. NIMBY or Not in My Back Yard
• 129. Double Meanings
• 130. Dinner for Two
• 131. The Simple Life
• 132. Immigration and You
• 133. Capturing the Essence of History: Writing Captions for Political Cartoons
• 134. First Encounter
• 135. I, Too, Was There
• 136. I Dream of Going to
• 137. Civil Rights
• 138. What If?
• 139. Just a Lookin' for a Home
• 140. They Came Across the Sea
• 141. A Knight's Tale
• 142. Food Often Makes the Place
• 143. "It's Out There Somewhere, But Who Knows Where and Who Really Cares?
• 144. War Is
• 145. The Most Perfect Place in the Universe
• 146. Civil Disobedience
• 147. I'd Like to Get to Know You
• 148. One Wish to Make the World a Better Place.

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Contributors:

Totten, Samuel

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

English language — Composition and exercises — Study and teaching

Creative writing

English language

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xix, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

LB1576 .S723 2009

ISBNs:

9781607520870 (pbk.)
1607520877 (pbk.)
9781607520887 (hardcover)
1607520885 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009006207

OCLC Numbers:

314377630