Do reading school essays put you to sleep?  Inject new life into essay writing and learn to teach structure without formula.  Gretchen Bernabei will wake up your students’ writing with dozens of practical voice-building lessons that foster structured prose without force-feeding formulas.

Bernabei makes teaching essay writing fun again…for teacher and student alike.   Reviving the Essay contains 30 exceptional lessons with motivating visual prompts, and reproducible sections that include text, graphics, and photos. Chapter headings begin with “Finding Your Message”, and end with “Crafting the Essay for a Reader’s Ears.”

Lesson names, some of which follow, reflect the variety, fun and depth of this powerful teacher asset:

•   Truisms

•    Mixed Feelings: The 52/49 Split

•   The Insight Garden: Growing Opinions from Art, Literature and Life

•   The Story of My Thinking

•   Tevye’s Debate

•   Sound Effects

•   Dialogue

•   Ba-da-bing! A Sentence-Imitating Exercise

•   I Want to Show You Something