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Sply Works_A Collaborative Creative Writing Model by Charlotte Bruce Source: Knowledge Quest 29 no4 23-6 Mr/Apr 2001

Review Catherine Colglazier was a creative writing teacher at McLean High School, a school that has the CIA Agency Technology Services as their business partner. Together with the library media specialist, she created a four way collaboration of writing. The students in this elective class visited the CIA headquarters, read spy books, did research on spying and wrote a story about it. This project encouraged students to also use their own imagination which they were very excited to do so. The project led students to write a paper about different cultures, backgrounds, languages and races, which made this project for a school of 50 different languages spoken to have a unique twist to it. Because of this creative writing project, the school had increased interest in the elective class as well as better grades.