Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres

I had a professor in college that made us read this for our "Teaching Writing" class. And, I am forever grateful that she did. This is an excellent reference for any class that is going to study or work on writing. There are so many ideas of what to do, but more than that, there is so much motivation within these pages. While reading it, I would get so excited about what I would do in my next lesson plan. Whether you want your class to write a multi-genre paper or not, this is a great book for any English teacher to read at least once! Even if you teach a subject that is not English, this would still be a fantastic reference. In our class, we had to write a multi-genre research paper. This would be an amazing project in a history class, or art, or any class where you want your students to be more creative with their writing!

With a writing class, we were asked to produce a multigenre paper, and my response is "what in the bloody frigg digg is a multigenre paper?" With this wonderful teaching book by Tom Romano, I learned what a multigenre paper is and furthermore, I learned how to do it. Number one: You have to let your creative juices spill out! And they must spill out for several pieces for several different genres of writing, whether it is a poem, a play, an editorial, lyrics to a song, anecdote, dialogue, monologue, etc. That's what a multi-genre piece is all about, because it incorporates your vision of several voices for your paper. Romano shares stories about his generational family. He is a high school teacher and became inspired with the genre writing of "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" by Michael Ondaajte. With this book, he began to teach his students how to express themselves with the use of multigenre papers. There are plenty of examples from his students to guide you. Included are some grammar b styles which enforce unique style to your pieces. Grammar b is writing in a different style that is a departure from normal sentence/verb structure. You will learn grammar b here. It's a wonderful instructional book. MzRizz.

Romano shares his experiences with writing in and out of the classroom. Writing with Passion is filled with fascinating examples of student writing. Many of his ideas are exciting and will encourage writers to push past their boundaries.