Bill,
The following is a response that came up on the Real Writing Teachers'
discussion, and I thought it might give you something to think about. Tena gave
me permission to forward it here.
Lisanne,
A couple of years ago I put together a sort of unit I
titled "Humor in Writing." I had a young man who was
so good at humor writing that every piece of work he
did became humorous. To help balance that out and to
still allow for learning in various other writing
genres, I simply told him once he had shown
understanding of a particular writing genre ( say a
well written research paper) he could then create an
additional piece in his favorite format...Humor. I
laughed my way through his wonderful three years with
our multi-age class. To honor him and because I saw
little out there I began unearthing humor for our
class. ( Lots of Dave Barry, Ted Nancy or (Jerry
Seinfeld's) "Letters from a Nut" come to mind. We
researched various formats and played around with
limericks, parodies, comedies and the like. It was a
great lot of fun and all genders were equally
enthusiastic. Perhaps this could work for you?
Tena
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Joy/NC/4
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