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  • Lindblom Math Science Academy
  • Chicago, IL
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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This project is inspired by my students who have shown me their most vulnerable and admirable selves through writing. Throughout their academic careers, students are asked to write in many different forms: rhetoric, analysis, persuasion, criticism, etc. We constantly ask our students to be themselves, but seldom give them opportunities to truly find themselves. Students are asked to write well, answering prompts and using correct MLA formatting, but I have found that we do not give enough opportunities for students to express themselves creatively. With their own personal writing journal, my students will each get the chance to not only express themselves but to find themselves through the use of creative and journal writing. Our classroom will become a safe space and a judgement-free zone in which students can pour their troubles and emotions onto paper, rather than build up and repress these feelings.

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This project is inspired by my students who have shown me their most vulnerable and admirable selves through writing. Throughout their academic careers, students are asked to write in many different forms: rhetoric, analysis, persuasion, criticism, etc. We constantly ask our students to be themselves, but seldom give them opportunities to truly find themselves. Students are asked to write well, answering prompts and using correct MLA formatting, but I have found that we do not give enough opportunities for students to express themselves creatively. With their own personal writing journal, my students will each get the chance to not only express themselves but to find themselves through the use of creative and journal writing. Our classroom will become a safe space and a judgement-free zone in which students can pour their troubles and emotions onto paper, rather than build up and repress these feelings.

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