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Peer reviewedVan Horn, Leigh – Language Arts, 2001
Describes an exploration the author and his seventh-grade students undertook as they wrote essays about objects of personal significance. Describes how they examined a piece of literature (an essay) as a model for their own writing, how they spent some time talking and listening to one another about their personal objects, and how they then wrote…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Essays, Grade 7
