Peer Mentor Informational Session, Monday, February 20th, 2012 in Ms. Hall’s Room 3:10-4:00pm
If you’re interested in being a new mentor, come join us.
Check out our new Writing Center video by Writing Center Peer Mentor, Reed Sherbrooke
Posted: May 10, 2011 in PostsTucson Writes Night 2011
Posted: May 9, 2011 in PostsTags: media, Tucson Writes Night, young writers
Dear Tucson High Writing Center,
Tucson Writes Night 2011 was an amazing experience! It was so exciting to see student writing and visual media projects presented in such a warm and supportive environment. University faculty and administration as well as teachers and students from Tucson High were in attendance. It was great to see moms, dads, brothers, sisters and community members come out to show their support of young writers, too.
To all the young writers presenting their work at Tucson Writes Night 2011, you rock! Thank you for having the courage to stand up in front of a public audience and share your work. You have beautiful and intelligent voices. Thank you for writing. Keep writing.
Best,
Event Programs, Tucson Writes Night 2011
Our host for the night, Lexie Whitehead, a Tucson High Writing Center Peer Mentor
Special guest speaker, Cruz Media, PhD Candidate, RCTE, author of the blog, Academia de Cruz
Special guest speaker, Kirsten Boele, MA Journalism, director of Fatuma, an documentary film project about being a Sudanese refugee in Tucson.
Keynote speaker, Daniel Hernandez, Gabrielle Gifford’s Intern and Public Speaker
Young Writer, Ochana Otto, Reading his poem, “City of Tucson”
Young Writer, Gloria Bergen, reading her essay on Native American education
Young Writer and Filmmaker, Cassidy Johnson, showing a “video poem” from her collection on youtube. To check out the poem, see link below.
Cassidy’s video poem, “Heat”
The Writing Center is pleased to announce 2 argument poster contest winners!
Posted: April 26, 2011 in PostsTags: Visual Rhetoric, Writing Without Borders
The Writing Without Borders Project team recently worked with Mr. Thomas and Ms. Hennessy’s 6th period Juniors to develop poster arguments based on visual rhetoric. The students submitted their project to the Writing Without Borders poster contest. Winners’ posters will be displayed at Tucson Writes Night this coming Tuesday, May 3rd at the UA Poetry Center!
CONGRATULATIONS to Dina Mathis’ poster “Dance,” which advocates for more dance classes. She takes 1st place with the most Writing Center votes.
Congratulations also goes to Charlie Franco, Ben Piccarreta, and Jonathan Kyl for their poster “Oh You Gangsta?,” which seeks to challenge their school’s “no hat” dress code policy. Their poster received the second most votes.
Writing Center faculty and mentors voted on their favorite posters.
The Tucson High Writing Center LOVES this book by Pamela Childers!
Posted: April 26, 2011 in PostsTags: Pamela Childers
Childers, Pamela. The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One. National Council of English Teachers, 1989.
Local documentary filmmaker, Kirsten Boele to speak at Tucson Writes Night
Posted: April 22, 2011 in PostsTags: Tucson Writes Night
Kirsten Boele, a local documentary filmmaker will speak at Tucson Writes Night on Tuesday May 3rd from 5-7pm. Watch a trailer of her new film above.
Tucson Writes Night is sponsored by the Tucson High Writing Center and is made possible through a grant project, Writing Without Borders. This grant is administered by the University of Arizona Writing Program and the UA Foundation (Community Connections Award).
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