This weekend I’m writing the first of the "write a mystery" workshop documents, for teachers who pre-order ALL THAT GLITTERS. This one will be for grade 6; of course the book is dandy for middle graders, as well as for adult readers who savor that "Nancy Drew" feel. Each grade-level "workshop" will include learning components tailored to that level. I’ll post parts of these as I build them, starting tomorrow.
The story of Cassidy, cam girl in modern-day SoCal; Paloma, Fulbright scholar in newly Westernized Prague; Jane, farm girl working at the FBI in DC during WWII. Each leaves Appalachia to find a new life, only to be pulled back to the land they know.
