Melanie Burdick and Julia Grant

“ARTiculation: Teaching Writing through Art and Aesthetic Theory”

Melanie and Julia demonstrate how students can use art and aesthetic theory to become more independent and successful writers. They show how using are in the classroom teachers help students better understand their own writing and use words more creatively and powerfully. Melanie teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Julia teaches at Hickman High School, Columbia 93 School District Grade level 6-college *Students can use art and aesthetic theory to become more independent and successful writers. Teachers can use art in their classrooms to help students better understand their own writing processes, critique their own writing, and use words more creatively and powerfully. By encouraging their students to make a unique, personal connection to art, teachers can inspire and spur creative thought in writing. In this session, Melanie and Julia will explain aesthetic theory and how it can be taught to writing students through a number of classroom activities and lessons. The presenters, an art teacher and a composition teacher, have worked with middle- to college-level students and often collaborate in bringing art into the writing classroom and writing into the art classroom. *Write to Learn program description