JSU Writing Project Anthology | Summer 2012
Jacksonville State University I I ' I i Jacksonville State University Writing Project Anthology I I Jacksonville, Alabama Summer 2012 Director Gloria Horton Jacksonville State University Co-Director I I , Melissa Shields I , Etowah County School System i Lisa M. Williams I' ; I . Jacksonville State University ' ' Technology Liaison Rodney Bailey Jacksonville State University i ' Dedication I This anthology is dedicated to all of the "out-of-the-box" thinkers, the ones who live up to the charge of Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, I to find, and not to yield"-Tennyson (line 70). I i I' '·. i ! i I , (., I . I I I I , I i I ' t' Foreword I . i . During the twenty-fifth anniversaiy of the JSU Writing I . ' Project Summer Institute, we sought to force ourselves "outside the box." From the very beginning, we recognized that teaching is a gift we give to our students, a gift that should not be tethered, hidden, or constrained. So we set about helping one another find ways to rid ourselves of the boxes we arrived in. In doing so, it has been our hope that our students will benefit from our efforts through a fresh perspective, a novel approach, a flipped classroom, or even a new voice. The practical pieces of wisdom we will take away from our time together stretch far beyond the pages of this book, but we have collected our best here. These pages represent i ) the many edges of the boxes we have dismantled in our efforts to become more than we were, and we now face the world armed with the determination, the desire, and the understanding necessaiy to bring others "outside the box" as well.
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