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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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From Tabloid to Truth: Using Tabloid Dreams to Inspire Powerful Fiction
- Source: English Journal, Volume 89, Issue 4, Mar 2000, p. 58 - 64
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- 01 Mar 2000
Abstract
Describes how a twelfth-grade high school English teacher used Robert Olen Butler’s “Tabloid Dreams” as a reading and writing assignment. Students explored their responses to Butler’s stories with attention and depth, and then wrote their own stories, making the potentially ridiculous meaningful, and using complexity and emotion.
© 2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English