Grade Levels:

10-adult

Length:

30 minutes

Taping Rights:

Unlimited

Teaching Materials:

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Program Schedule:

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Kentucky author George Ella Lyon leads a group of adult workshop participants through exercises designed to spark creativity and provide ideas for writing. Each program focuses on a specific form of writing, from poetry to the personal narrative.

Lyon is the author of the novel With a Hammer for My Heart as well as Come a Tide and other children’s books. For additional background on the writer, pair Everyday Voices with An Electronic Conversation with George Ella Lyon, in which she talks about the inspirations for her own work and her writing process.

Program of Studies:
Writing: Writing Content, Writing Structure, Writing Process, Writing Conventions
Arts and Humanities: Purposes for Creating the Arts, Processes in the Arts, Interrelationships Among the Arts
Practical Lviing/Vocational Studies: Career Awareness, Exploration, and Planning; Employability Skills
Technology: Inquiry and Research; Research, Inquiry/Problem-solving and Innovation; Information, Communication and Productivity High School
Speaking, Listening, Observing