Help me give my students copies of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House so that they can experiment with how to tell their own stories in artful and novel ways.
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My Project
At the end of each school year, students in my AP Language and Composition course spend the weeks after the administration of the AP exam writing short memoirs that, for juniors, can serve as potential first drafts of their college essays; for seniors, it becomes an opportunity to continue building and refining their unique writer's voice.
Carmen Maria Machado's memoir In the Dream House has, in the past, proven to be a popular source of inspiration when I've presented it in an excerpted form.
Given the opportunity to use the entire text in my instruction, I think students would be even more motivated and interested to take stylistic risks in their own writing. Help me get copies of this novel in the hands of my students so that they can take their writing to the next level.
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