Descriptive Writing
On teaching it, with examples from Gideon the Ninth and A Lady in Waiting
I worked in a Special Ed classroom at a local elementary school yesterday, and when the teacher prepared me for the incoming group of fourth graders, she described one of the boys as “brilliant, but he refuses to do any of his work.”
Challenge accepted.
After settling the girls into writing their opinion papers, using the outline maps they’d already done,…