Recap: MWC Writing Units

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Welcome back, friends. Tell me about your summer: Where are you going? How late are you waking up? What are you reading for fun? What are you NOT doing?

I often find myself annoyed at conversations about teacher self-care, as if it’s now one more thing I’m obligated to plan and enact for myself in a life that has zero time and circling-the-toilet-bowl-energy. To be honest, sometimes I don’t want to take care of myself. That’s a lot of pressure. A lot of work. I want someone to take care of me.

But. I was recently speaking at a conference and snuck into a breakout session led by psychologist Dr. Kelly Jameson. And she said something that struck me (probably because it appeals to my workaholic tendencies). She said, “You have to be just as intense about your self-care this summer as you are about your job during the school year. You have to be militant about joy.”

So, I hope you are being intense about your break and militant about your joy.

Here’s something to help you when you’re ready to jump back into the thick of things (No pressure. Take your time. This will wait.) It’s a roundup of our writing units, all nicely packaged together.

Here are the 19 writing units you’ll find below:

• Writing “I’m Really Into…” Essays

• Writing Analysis 101

• Writing Analysis 201

• Writing Arguments (With Room for Debate)

• Writing Argument Picture Books

• Writing How-To Guides

• Writing Podcasts

• Writing Personal Essays

• Writing Self-Paced Personal Essays

• Writing Opinion Pieces

• Writing Authentic, Adaptable Research-Based Pieces

• Writing Analytical Essays

• Writing Narrative Scenes

• Writing One Great Sentence

• Writing to a Prompt

• Writing Two-Sentence Horror Stories

• Writing with a Focus on Revision

• Writing Roundtable Analysis

• Writing Graphic Novels