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Teaching Matters, the awesome non-profit dedicated to bringing technology into NYC schools, created a cool “Writing the City” e-Zine for middle schoolers where teachers get their students published, e-style. There’s nothing like a little virtual graffiti to motivate a unit.

This is also an excellent resource for educators looking for exemplary peer mentor text organized into various genres: editorials, realistic fiction, features, poetry, memoir, short story, fairy tale, and non-fiction. While teaching a unit on editorials or organizing a debate about whether or not cell phones should be banned in school, check out what our City’s students are already saying and raise the bar. It’s as easy as one, two, three, write that e-Zine:

1. Take a tour
2. Browse the writing
3. Create your class e-Zine It’s totally free! (Be sure to not use students’ full names.)

They’re now looking for middle school educators to nominate a diverse group of highly-motivated middle school 7th or 8th grade students to serve on their Writing the City Editorial Board. Do you have students with a strong interest in journalism or creative writing and an A average in English Language Arts? Students will oversee Writing the City, work with real writers and editors at publications as prestigious as the NY Times, and meet with a community of ten other highly-motivated middle school writers.

Monthly weekend meetings will take place at Teaching Matters. Transportation reimbursement costs available. Apply online by March 16.

We can’t wait until elementary and high school can write the city too!

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