Meadow Brook Writing Project

Teachers Teaching Teachers

MBWP partners Oakland University with local schools, including Detroit Public Schools, Macomb County, and Oakland Community College.

Members

  • Rebecca Rivard
  • Mary Beth Revesz
  • Cyndi Nickel
  • Toni Gibson
  • Janet Wilkins
  • Meadow Brook Writing Project
  • Jen Thomas
  • Karen
  • Mikki D. Zachary
  • Celeste Turner
  • arthur D orme
  • Lisa Anne Hine
  • Cornelia Pokrzywa
  • Alexandra Adamus
  • Desiree
  • Shaun Moore

Blog Posts

Janet Wilkins

Essay Writing Structure!

An essay can have a lot of intentions, but the basic structure of all type of essays will be same. You may be writing an argumentative essay to argue for a particular point of view or to may be doing a persuasive essay to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format and structure.
An essay consists of three major parts,

1.Introduction
2.Supporting Paragraphs
3.Summary Paragraph

In this article we will provide… Continue

Posted by Janet Wilkins on January 19, 2010 at 12:12am

Cornelia Pokrzywa

Announcing the ROHA Project

Welcome to the new Ning members! Summer 2009 TCs, I am looking for researchers who want to participate in my Rochester Oral History Archive project. I will have WRT 160 students working on the project as part of their community engagement component. If you are seeking a community engagement component for your students, please contact me so we can discuss details.

The Rochester Oral History Archive:
Project to Preserve Oral Histories of Rochester Residents

In partnership with the Meadow Brook W… Continue

Posted by Cornelia Pokrzywa on November 14, 2009 at 4:00pm

Laura

Teacher Inquiry Group: Wednesday Wonderings

Here is an idea generated at NWP Inside Inquiry...

Teacher Inquiry Community

Each Wednesday teacher consultants that are interested would commit to checking in on the MBMP NING
and submit their teacher "wonderings."

These wonderings would lead us to group or individual inquiry work.

What are the thoughts on this?

Continue

Posted by Laura on August 1, 2009 at 1:09pm — 3 Comments

Laura

Side by Side: Writing to Learn - May 2 - Please Comment

8:00 - 8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast- Check out Heinemann book display

8:45 - 9:00 Greeting Introductions

9:00 Keynote (Kathleen - hand out copies of her publication , Toni could do her Memoirizing session -she is a published author- we coudl sell her books)

10:10 - 11:00 BREAKOUTS

Robert Lamphear, Oakland Community College, Mary Cox, and Kathleen Lawson- anyone interested in building a session such as you did last year???


Kathy Hribar - Library Media Specialist, Westwood Ele… Continue

Posted by Laura on February 27, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Cornelia Pokrzywa

The "Copycats"

As I gather K-12 plagiarism sources and begin interviewing students, my own kids wanted in on the action. I'm not planning to put them in my "real" research, so we worked on this video just for fun. Enjoy!

Posted by Cornelia Pokrzywa on December 19, 2008 at 7:48pm

 

Latest Activity

Rebecca Rivard added an event
Mystery Writer's Workshop at Oakland University
February 6, 2010 from 12pm to 3pm
Please notify any children from grades 2-6 that a Mystery Writing workshop will be held at Oakland University: " The secrets of mystery writing will be revealed while you create your own mystery story to take home. Crime scene investigating experime…
January 19
December 12, 2009
December 12, 2009
Cornelia Pokrzywa Working on a new digital archive project: Rochester Oral History Archive
November 14, 2009
Cornelia Pokrzywa added a blog post
Welcome to the new Ning members! Summer 2009 TCs, I am looking for researchers who want to participate in my Rochester Oral History Archive project. I will have WRT 160 students working on the project as part of their community engagement component.…
November 14, 2009
Mary Beth Revesz and Renée Reznik are now friends
August 23, 2009
Laura added 2 videos
August 11, 2009
I love this picture! Thanks for posting this, Art!
August 9, 2009

Forum

Lori Ostergaard

Articles needed for MBWP's fall newsletter 1 Reply

Started by Lori Ostergaard. Last reply by Lori Ostergaard Aug. 8, 2009.

Laura

Teacher Inquiry Community

Started by Laura Aug. 1, 2009.

Toni Gibson

NWP Urban Sites Conference in Louisville, KY April 2009

Started by Toni Gibson May. 15, 2009.

Photos

Loading…
 
 

Events

Birthdays

There are no birthdays today

 

© 2010   Created by Lori Ostergaard on Ning.   Create a Ning Network!

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service

Sign in to chat!