Prose from the Pros #1: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Six years ago, I was student teaching at Pennsbury High School East, 11 th and 12 th grade AP English with Anne Marie Liebel (now Garth). Administrators and parents visit the classrooms often, so it was important to display student work and learning on the bulletin boards. The students learn from it as well believe it or not. Anne Marie came up with a brilliant idea: the composition class will create a bulletin board with aspects of a piece of writing they felt was well done. The students would choose from well known authors read in class. We called it Prose from the Pros (see picture above). The students were then expected to emulate that style in their own writing. I thought the idea would be perfect on a writer’s blog, for myself and for others. This series of posts will explain what I liked stylistically about a novel or book, albeit the structure, diction, figurative language, characterization, setting, etc. ...