Marshall University Writing Project, in association with Coalfield Writers and Logan County Schools, will offer a spring Creative Writing Camp for students. The theme for this camp is FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES and all classes will have literacy lessons that involve movie night.

Friday Night at the Movies is creative writing camp program with separate classes for students in grades 2, 3 - 5, 6 – 8 and 9 - 12. Camp will be held on the evening of March 12, 2010 at Logan High School.

Creative Writing Camp is open to all area students who in grades2 through 12 this school year.

Marshall University Writing Project Offers VAMP CAMP Summer Creative Writing Program for Middle School Students

Marshall University Writing Project, Coalfield Writers and Logan County Schools will offer a summer creative writing program for middle school students. The theme of this year’s camp is VAMP CAMP.

VAMP CAMP is open to students of all area schools, currently enrolled in grades four through eight. During Vamp Camp students will engage in a variety of fiction writing opportunities, themed around vampire stories.

Thursday Readers Book Club, a book club discussion group will continue meetings this winter. Book club meetings are held at 6:00 p.m., at Chirico’s Restaurant in Logan, and the public is invited to attend. Thursday Readers Book Club is sponsored by Coalfield Writers, Marshall University Writing Project, and Logan County Schools.

Teacher Leadership Intitute 2009 Members will lead beginning and intermediate work sessions to support teachers in designing and implementing PBL units for classroom use.

TCs of Coalfield Writers are invited to attend an Advanced Power Point Tips and Tricks technology PD session presented by Tia Miller

Tracy added a video from Round Up 2009. While we work out Firefox VS Internet Explorer issues, click here to watch it. Sorry about that. Our site works well with Firefox, but IE sometimes throws a huge monkey wrench into the works. I may or may not find a work-around to the problem.

Rituals
Crystal Howell

We walk down the street, the napes of our necks pinking in the clear New Mexican sun. The church is modern—white stucco, clean lines—but the talk, dark doors beckon, and we decide to enter.

My eyes register only dimness for a few moments, the cool stone floor absorbing the candles’ small light. I wipe my hand across my face, but the palpable stillness that clouds my vision doesn’t dissipate. My friend, the lapsed Catholic turned yoga devotee, dips her fingers in the grey stone basin before crossing herself. She saunters down the side aisle and stops near the altar, fumbling in her bag for two dollars, enough for the big candle. She’s lighting if for her grandmother—her grandmother who right now, as we head to the flea market, is dying. The sticks to light the candles are stuck in a small urn of sand, but she can’t seem to find them so I reach her one. “Thank you,” she replies, placing the clean white candle on the wooden stand with the others.

This is not my ritual, the calm rhetoric and routine of the rosary. My protestant sense of reality has undone a little of this mystery. But I find two dollars for the box, and line my candle up beside its brothers and sisters. And together they are a choir, a visual song of prayers that I imagine must be beautiful to look on from above

Marshall University Writing Project, in association with Coalfield Writers and Logan County Schools, will offer a “DAY OF WRITING” inservice for all area teachers.

The inservice will be on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, starting at 5 p.m. at the Logan High School Cafeteria. Attending Logan County Teachers will earn 3 hours of continuing education credit for in-lieu of time.

Adopt art as the next R in one of the recommendations for media literacy, according to Jason Ohler. Read the whole text at the link.