As a teacher, I've been building lesson plans for writing classes since 2008. So I have a lot of material...but it's not all super organized. And as a teacher, you hit fits and starts with projects. But hopefully these materials can give you a sense of what a teaching webpage can look like:
Investigation, Freewriting, and Poetics
This page provides a blog, lesson plans, and handouts for creative writing and composition courses. I started this page for the Introduction to Fiction and Poetry course at Johns Hopkins, and then adapted it for English 101 and 145 at Illinois State University.
Writing the Human in Science Fiction
This three-week workshop at Johns Hopkins considered how writers portray science fiction characters. With a collection of readings, lesson plans, and workshops, this was one of the best courses I've ever taught. Students from this class worked together and started the undergraduate literary magazine Word Planet. Although the magazine doesn't appear to still be going, Hopkins students kept it going on their Word Planet Facebook Page until at least 2019.
English Language Arts at YouthBuild McClean County
During my three years at YouthBuild, I put together writing workshops, a digital literacy course, and this sprawling website of unfinished lesson plans. Building this website gave me some great ideas for courses that I would love to teach, but it also showed me that this is so much to research in order to fill in my own gaps of knowledge.
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