Jan Newman

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Welcome!
Jan Newman Holly Marich
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McGill Tiger Family Writing Project
Spring 2004
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This Years Theme Hopes, Fears, and
Dreams
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At the MTFWP...
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everybody writes!
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Wellalmost everybody!
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From preschool...
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to all grown up...
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we met together for five Saturdays...
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to
write,
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read,
to
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v i s i t,
t o
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and get to know each other better.
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We enjoyed great feasts...
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snacks!
and small
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We exchanged mail... mail.
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and shared our writing.
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We planted our hopes,
We planted our hopes.
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confronted our fears,
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and reflected on...
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our dreams.
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We came together as teachers, students, and
parents to create something greater than
expected...
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• A community of friends
• A group of thinkers
• Readers
• Writers
• Life-long learners

McGill Tiger Family Writing Project
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Comments

• This writing project is cheap therapy.
• Ive opened up a part of me for poetry.
• I wont be scared to stand up in front of my
  class anymore after this.

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Special Thanks

• Arthur Kelly for starting the Family Writing
  Project phenonomen at Fremont Middle School
• Scott Barrick, secretary to The Mormon Tabernacle
  Choir, for permission to use The Impossible
  Dream
• The totally awesome participants of the first
  annual McGill Tiger Family Writing Project

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Launching Dreams
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Hey! I can dream cant I?
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Links
www.familywritingprojects.com
Family Writing Projects Arthur Kelly, Founder
www.writingproject.org
National Writing Project
E-Mail
jannewma_at_whitepine.k12.nv.us
McGill Tiger Family Writing Project
Jan Newman