Introduction: Seeing the possible
1: Creativity Crawls Through The Cracks:
Your (hypothetical?) life as a data-driven English teacher
Brief history of nearly everything (or, at least, of curriculum in America)
Moving forward (the crowd goes wild)
Microcosm for the marriage of standards and creativity (model lesson: the Boston photograph)
2: Reading And Responding Like A Human Being:
Rubrics with holes? A case in point
It's okay to say "soul" in school
Creative literary analysis (or why I love Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore)
Nontraditional book responses and the thesis essay, revisited
3: Play's The Thing: Writing As Creative And Rigorous:
Can we do this in school?
Interlude of theoretical underpinning (Cue Mozart)
Ridiculous and free as a bridge to pearls of wisdom: an assignment in focus
4: Doing Outside The Box:
Creativity beyond the classroom
Making the classroom anthology manageable, cheap, and effective
Small ways to make big connections outside the walls
5: Beyond Reading And Writing: How To Teach Students To See, Think, And Feel:
Getting (physically) outside the school and into the world's classroom
Final reflections: Agony and the sweat
Appendix A: Boston photograph
Appendix B: Love and marriage?
Appendix C: Considering Janie, considering you, considering love
Appendix D: Something left to love?
Appendix E: Paideia (or Socratic) seminar
Appendix F: Socratic seminar: Skin I'm in / Sharon G Flake
Appendix G: Marriage of passion and purpose
Appendix H: My ideal country
Appendix J: Do you live like a crab?
Appendix K: Losing sight of the shore
Appendix L: Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!
Appendix M: Mr Reynold's (things to look out for while you write and revise or else he'll make lots of huge pen marks all over your page to alert you to them) list of writing rules
Appendix N: Writing authentic dialogue
Appendix O: Brief, personal writing prompts
Appendix P: Listening to random thoughts
Appendix Q: Introduction to anthology project
Appendix R: Community-forming activities
