Reading and Teaching Literary Nonfiction and Informational Text Registration Form

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The Western Massachusetts Writing Project is offering the 3-credit course "Reading and Teaching Literary Nonfiction and Informational Text" in the fall semester of 2020 with monthly Saturdays meetings at UMass Amherst. To register, please complete the following form:

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If you are not currently working for a school or district, please indicate your current status.

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Why are you interested in this course? Check all that apply. *

I need more experience reading nonfiction and informational text.

I am expected to teach nonfiction and informational text and need ideas for titles.

I want to learn more strategies for teaching critical reading.

I want to learn how to create text sets that include nonfiction and informational text.

I would like assistance developing authentic writing tasks related to nonfiction or informational text.

I would like some guided practice in building a unit around nonfiction or informational text.

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Which of the following nonfiction titles interest you the most? *

The course will include reading and discussing one major work of adult nonfiction for the purpose of examining our own reading strategies. Please indicate your level of interest in each of the following. We are looking to narrow the field to two. (NOTE: All titles are available on Amazon.)

I'm really interested in reading this book.

I've already read it, but I'm happy to read it again.

I've already read it, and once was enough.

It sounds OK, but it's not at the top of my list.

It doesn't interest me at all.

Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

I'm really interested in reading this book.

I've already read it, but I'm happy to read it again.

I've already read it, and once was enough.

It sounds OK, but it's not at the top of my list.

It doesn't interest me at all.

Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

How will you be paying the $430 WMWP registration fee? *

Please note that your registration is not complete until we receive your payment or a school purchase order. This fee is for the course only, but it includes registration for the WMWP Best Practices, Registration for graduate credits, if desired, will happen later.

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