Heights teacher, Joe Breslin, discusses the problems with the contemporary approach to writing, and offers his strategy for raising craftsmen of letters. By turning your classroom into a workshop, you can engage your boys and train them in the arts of observation and effective communication.
Resources Mentioned in Podcast:
Joe Breslin’s webinar on The Heights Academy: Writing From the Sentence Up
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
-Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Joe Breslin teaches writing, and other homeroom subjects at the Heights School. In 2022, he published Other Minds: 13 Tales of Wonder and Sorrow. His next collection of speculative fiction, Hearts Uncanny, will be released late summer of 2024. Samples of his fiction and his essays can be found at joeybreslinwrites.com.