Bob Boone


The Mission: To help creative writing teachers sharpen their skills and expand their horizons.

Summer is a great time to gather up memories and shape them into stories. If you're teaching summer school or working with young people, give your students a chance to write some true stories. Give yourself a chance to write true stories.

Contact Bob...
 
What is the status of the Personal Narrative at your school? Who writes them and when?

Email your thoughts to advice@
bobbooneteacherhangout.com
 
The names of your favorite memoirs.
 
While all teachers are welcome to hang out here, this site should be particularly appealing to that special breed of teacher -- the creative writing teacher. This person might teach a course that is actually called "Creative Writing." Or, this person might teach a regular old English course but load it up with creative writing options. This person might not teach English at all but sponsor the Creative Writing Club. This person might simply get the mail for the "Creative Writing Person." Or this person might be a creative writing wannabe anxious to use the stuff but not sure how to do it.

If you are one of these people, you're going to want to stick around.

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This Month's Challenge

Write a true animal story. We could use some for our archives. Email your story to stories@bobbooneteacherhangout.com

Last month's challenge was:
Write a story about a time you learned an unexpected lesson.

The Latest from our Teachers

Billy Lombardo is doing things with his Polyphony magazine.
Check it out.

Several teachers in the Chicago are organizing writing workshops for students who are not able to take a creative writing class at their schools. Contact us if you have any ideas.

The Latest from our Students

Young people from all over are planning to come to Chicago for the national youth poetry slam, July 14-18. It's sponsored by Brave New Voices.

Check it out.

Moe's Cafe
Forty-eight decidedly different creative writing prompts for developing writers.

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Hack
The meteoric life of one of baseball's first superstars: Hack Wilson

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Inside Job: A Life of Teaching
An enlightening and entertaining story of Bob Boone's education as a teacher.

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