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Dear Teachers,
It has been around a month since the last Sparks lesson. I hope that those of you on vacation are finding it to be a restful, restorative one. You worked hard this year!I'm emailing to tell you that I have compiled the first full year of Sparks lessons into a downloadable book. These Sparks were originally mailed out between the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006 and include lessons on limericks, writing dialogue, persuasive letters and many quirky narratives. In this book you'll find prompts involving a number of historical, creative people: C.S. Lewis, Norman Rockwell, Aaron Copland, Harry Houdini, and others.This was a fun, fun year of lessons!The digital book is the perfect form for using with your class. Not only are my sparkpics included and ready to be printed off your computer, all the related pages on my site are only a click away. Read more about the book and how to purchase here.
There's a link to two sample pages so that you can see how I've organized the lessons.For those of you who want the collection of this past year of Sparks, you'll have to wait a bit longer. Summer is the time for me to catch up on all the creative projects I can't get to during the busy school visiting season, so I'm moving onto doing some creative writing of my own before coming back to work on Sparks again.I hope you'll consider purchasing my book. The sales of these downloadable files will determine whether I can keep committing so much time and effort to giving away free lessons.Have a great summer, and hopefully, I'll be resuming the free lessons in the fall!
Creatively yours,
Bruce Van Patter
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Dear Teachers,
It has been around a month since the last Sparks lesson. I hope that those of you on vacation are finding it to be a restful, restorative one. You worked hard this year!I'm emailing to tell you that I have compiled the first full year of Sparks lessons into a downloadable book. These Sparks were originally mailed out between the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006 and include lessons on limericks, writing dialogue, persuasive letters and many quirky narratives. In this book you'll find prompts involving a number of historical, creative people: C.S. Lewis, Norman Rockwell, Aaron Copland, Harry Houdini, and others.This was a fun, fun year of lessons!The digital book is the perfect form for using with your class. Not only are my sparkpics included and ready to be printed off your computer, all the related pages on my site are only a click away. Read more about the book and how to purchase here.
There's a link to two sample pages so that you can see how I've organized the lessons.For those of you who want the collection of this past year of Sparks, you'll have to wait a bit longer. Summer is the time for me to catch up on all the creative projects I can't get to during the busy school visiting season, so I'm moving onto doing some creative writing of my own before coming back to work on Sparks again.I hope you'll consider purchasing my book. The sales of these downloadable files will determine whether I can keep committing so much time and effort to giving away free lessons.Have a great summer, and hopefully, I'll be resuming the free lessons in the fall!
Creatively yours,
Bruce Van Patter
- Dance Lessons
Picture by LilyLily from Two French Bulldogs has been providing us (Fenris & Tuiren) with dance lessons, now we are all ready for the New Year's Eve Bash tonight. Fenris has asked Sagira to accompany him and Tuiren is sure she will find...
- Book Meme
Karen Jo over at Kitty Limericks tagged us for the book meme. Here are the rules: Pick up the nearest book.Open to page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post the next three sentences.Tag five people and post a comment to Mickey once you have posted it.The...
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Lord Epa's history book came today. I already had the teacher's edition, but it was nice to see that the student textbook lived up to my expectations. I can't wait to dive in. I have already started working on lessons plans and we plan to...
- Interview With Colleen Gleason
As an avid reader I am always on the lookout for new authors, so I was thrilled when I stumbled across Colleen Gleason's blog playing Thursday Thirteen (she is on TT # 25). Colleen has graciously given me an interview. Colleen could you tell me a...
- A Perfect Day
If someone asked me...I would have to say that I am a very happy person.Every day is a good day.That is, of course, unless it is a GREAT day! Yesterday was one such day.GREAT! I was twenty feet tall...on top of the world.And judging from this picture,...