“The Miss Dennis School of Writing” was written by Alice Steinbach. Steinbach was a journalist and freelance writer. In this particular story she wrote about her ninth- grade creative writing teacher. She said this essay was a writing lesson and a life lesson. She felt this was because her teacher, Miss Dennis, taught that good descriptive writing makes the reader see what the writer sees and because she made her students find their special one- of- a- kind voice. Steinbach described her teacher as a middle age, short lady with apricot color hair. She said she learned how to do great creative writing because Miss Dennis would make her students describe what they saw on the way to school. To be on the safe side, they all paid special attention to their surrounding on the way to school. Steinbach really respected Miss Dennis because she was very strict and she had a deep commitment to energizing the writer in every student. Miss Dennis was the only teacher Steinbach felt comfortable talking to about her father’s death. She didn’t even have to tell Miss Dennis she was said; she picked it by her writing. After they talked about Steinbach dad, they always had a connection between each other. Shortly, they realized they liked the same poetry. Miss Dennis encouraged Steinbach to enter a writing contest; of course, she won. When Steinbach left Miss Dennis class she received a poem book. She cherished it until it fell apart. Sadly, Steinbach learned her favorite teacher had died and was wondering did she know she was going to die so soon. I think this was a great essay because we all have our favorite teacher or instructor we loved.
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