NVWP » Continuity http://nvwp.org Northern Virginia Writing Project Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:21:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Write a Novel in a Month http://nvwp.org/2008/10/31/write-a-novel-in-a-month/ http://nvwp.org/2008/10/31/write-a-novel-in-a-month/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:15:02 +0000 NVWP http://nvwp.org/?p=124 The time is “write”.  November is National Novel Writing Month, and the website (www.nanowrimo.org) challenges you to write a 175-page novel in 30 days!  Start time is mid-night, November 1st, and you must have your novel completed by mid-night on November 30th.  Sign up on the website to participate in the NaNowWriMo network.  According to the website, “to be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.”

The NVWP wants to help you in this endeavor!  We will be holding a novel writing workshop on Saturday, November 8th, at George Mason (room location TBA), from 10-2.  It will function just like a reading/writing group meeting, so bring an outline, a chapter, or just an idea to the workshop.  You will also have time to work on your novel, so bring your writer’s notebook or laptop!

If you have questions, email Erinn Harris at Erinn.Harris@fcps.edu.

Good luck!

]]> http://nvwp.org/2008/10/31/write-a-novel-in-a-month/feed/ 0 Michelle Ohanian FCPS Teacher of the Year http://nvwp.org/2008/03/28/michelle-ohanian-fcps-teacher-of-the-year/ http://nvwp.org/2008/03/28/michelle-ohanian-fcps-teacher-of-the-year/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:49:12 +0000 NVWP http://nvwp.org/2008/03/28/michelle-ohanian-fcps-teacher-of-the-year/ NVWP Teacher Consultant Michelle Ohanian has been named Fairfax County Public Schools 2008 Teacher of the Year and recipient of the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award for Educational Excellence.  You may know Michelle as one of the coordinators of our ELL program and as well as chair of the National Writing Project’s English Language Learners Network.

The Fairfax County Press Release

Congratulations, Michelle!!!

]]> http://nvwp.org/2008/03/28/michelle-ohanian-fcps-teacher-of-the-year/feed/ 0 TC Continuity Event This Weekend! http://nvwp.org/2008/02/12/tc-continuity-event-this-weekend/ http://nvwp.org/2008/02/12/tc-continuity-event-this-weekend/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:58:16 +0000 NVWP http://nvwp.org/2008/02/12/tc-continuity-event-this-weekend/ Missing Friends from the Summer Institute? We’d love to see you. Please come to exchange ideas.

Here’s the plan for the morning:

We will get together to share assignments. Instead of making stacks of photocopies of your great lessons inspired by our time together this summer, email a lesson plan and any accompanying handouts to Erinn Harris (erinn.harris[at]fcps[dot]edu). She will burn CD’s of everyone’s work and hand them out on the 16th. Save paper, save trees!

This will be social and professional–we could all take 3-5 minutes to describe our assignments. Some of these assignments might actually be “how I integrated one of last summer’s presentations into my course this year.”

Additionally, you are encouraged to bring a non-TC friend, or, shall we say a “prospective TC.”

Saturday, February 16th at George Mason at 10:00am, in Robinson A447. Park in the Mason Pond Parking Deck and we’ll validate your parking.

RSVP to leo13103[at]yahoo[dot]com

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