Notes
1 Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. (Second Anchor Books Edition. New York: Anchor Books, 2019), 218.
2Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Several short sentences about writing. (New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc, 2013), 68.
3 Lattimer, Heather. Thinking through Genre: Units of Study in Reading and Writing Workshops 4-12. (Portland, Me: Stenhouse Publishers, 2003), 26.
4 Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Several short sentences about writing, 17.
5 “School Profiles Home.” Accessed July 29, 2025. https://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Eastern+High+School
6 Lattimer, Thinking through Genre, 25.
7 Hillocks, George. Narrative Writing: Learning a New Model for Teaching. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007), 132.
8 Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing, 13-14.
9 Lattimer, Thinking through Genre, 32.
10 Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing, 33-44.
11 Barry, Lynda. "The Sanctuary of School." In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et. al (14th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016) 418.
12 Tan, Amy. “Fish Cheeks.” Accessed July 10, 2025, https://www.commonlist.org/texts/fish-cheeks
13Walker, Alice. "Beauty When the Other Dancer Is the Self." In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et. al, 14th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016) 74-80.
14 Alexie, Sherman. “Superman and Me.” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1998. Accessed July 15, 2025. https://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/SupermanandMebyAlexie.pdf.
15 Culham, Ruth. Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School. (Scholastic, 2010), 30.
16 Ibid, 31.
17 Lamott, Bird by Bird, 24.
18 Klinkenborg, Several short sentences about writing, 100.
19 Culham, Traits of Writing, 98.
20 Ibid, 32.
21 Reed, Mary Jane. Teaching Powerful Personal Narratives: Strategies for College Applications and High School Classrooms. (Gainesville, FL: Maupin House Pub., 2004), 32.
22 Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. 6. ed., rev. Updated. (New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1998), 56.
23 Barry, "The Sanctuary of School," 414.
24 Tan, “Fish Cheeks.”
25 Alexie, “Superman and Me.”
26 Gay, Roxane. “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion.” The Rumpus, August 28, 2012. Accessed July 15, 2025. https://therumpus.net/2012/08/28/the-illusion-of-safetythe-safety-of-illusion/
27 Walker, "Beauty When the Other Dancer Is the Self,” 74.
28 Zinsser, On Writing Well, 65.
29 Tan, “Fish Cheeks.”
30 Alexie, “Superman and Me.”
31 Culham, Traits of Writing, 32.
32 Tan, “Fish Cheeks.”
33 Alexie, “Superman and Me.”
34 Walker, “Beauty When the Other Dancer Is the Self," 74-80.
35 Culham, Traits of Writing, 32.
36 Zinsser, On Writing Well, 133-134.
37 Culham, Traits of Writing, 32.
38 Ibid, 32.
39 Ibid, 32.
40 Ibid, 32.
41 Gay, “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion.”
42 Alexie “Superman and Me.”
43 Ibid.
44 Del Nero, J.R. (2017). Fun While Showing, Not Telling: Crafting Vivid Detail in Writing. The Reading Teacher, 71(1), 83–87. doi: 10.1002/trtr.1575, 83.
45 Lattimer, Thinking through Genre, 54-55.
46 Gay, “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion.”
47 Barry, "The Sanctuary of School," 414.
48 Ibid, 414.
49 Tan, “Fish Cheeks.”
50 Marius, Richard. A Writer’s Companion. 4. ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill College, 1999), 10.
51 Culham, Traits of Writing, 33.
52 Ibid, 33.
53 Zinsser, On Writing Well, 110.
54 Culham, Ruth. Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School. (Scholastic, 2010), 221.
55 Walker, "Beauty When the Other Dancer Is the Self," 74.
56 Alexie, “Superman and Me.”
57 Gay, “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion.”
58 Culham,. Traits of Writing, 240.
59 Klinkenborg. Several short sentences about writing, 50-53.
60 Reed, Teaching Powerful Personal Narrative, 2-3.
61 Culham, Traits of Writing, 49-50.
62 Mejia, Madeleine. "Metawriting: Empowering students to discover their knowledge of writing". Journal of Pedagogical Research 2024 8 no. 1 (2024): 84.
63 Mejia, "Metawriting: Empowering students to discover their knowledge of writing," 84.
64 Culham, Traits of Writing, 65.
65 Ibid, 101.
66 Ibid, 147.
67 Ibid, 185.
68 Ibid, 225.
69 Hillocks, Narrative Writing, 41.
70 Ibid, 40.
71 Ibid, 40.
72 Lattimer, Thinking through Genre, 47-48.
73 Christensen, Linda. Reading, Writing, and Rising up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word. (Milwaukee, Wis.: Rethinking Schools, 2000), 16-17
74 Ibid, 14.
75 Ibid, 15.
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