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Great Valley Stories
The Great Central Valley cuts a swath up the middle of California. The members of our community have come from all over the nation and the world to build a diverse culture of farming, business, and industry. We love our mountain-rimmed valley and the cities and towns where we live.The 2023 anthology of the San Joaquin Valley Writers Club reflects the diversity of the valley itself. Travel through our fertile fields, our teeming streets, and our generous hearts to learn who we are as a region and a people.
Writing in Small Groups
A book to support improved writing through the Cooperative Inquiry small group process along with 4color reflection steps.
The Other California
Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesn’t like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat. In this collection of essays, he argues that it is California’s heartland and economic hub. In addition, the valley has produced a crop of gifted writers. These nineteen essays range from reminiscences of childhood and adolescence to a portrait of Mexican-Americans and their position in the Valley’s society to a moving essay about having the author’s aging father come to live with the family. Even if you have never lived in the Valley, reading this book will give you an entirely new perspective the next time you drive into it.
50 Ways to Develop Strategic Writers
With contributions from master teachers under the guidance of Gail Tompkins, Director of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, this book provides clear, step-by-step descriptions of 50 effective, proven strategies for helping learners in Grades 4 - 12 become competent strategic writers. Instructions for each strategy are carefully constructed to enable novice teachers to easily and quickly recreate the lessons and adapt them for many grade and ability levels.
From the San Joaquin
"In this collection of linked stories, Barry Kitterman brings the dusty, fertile San Joaquin Valley vividly to life--a land of orange groves and religious revivals, where the mountains rise high on either side, marking the limits of the characters' lives. Kitterman writes with a plainspoken grace, showing men and women who face poverty, disappointment, and loneliness with a quiet daily courage and goodwill."--Heidi Jon Schmidt, author of The House on Oyster Creek "Barry Kitterman has outwritten Sherwood Anderson, leaped past Winesburg to baking, shrouded, razory Ivanhoe, in California's lower central valley. Its people--sad, sweet, grotesque, flint-eyed--yearn and misstep with desperate dign...
Better Writing
Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills. Rather than intimidate and overwhelm novice writers with vast sets of rules, Travis Koll utilizes simple and relatable explanations and examples to demystify the writing process. Armed with this better understanding, one that reaches far beyond the mere mechanics of punctuation and grammar, students can begin to recognize the true nature and significance of writing, its potential impact on their readers, and the importance of their voices in their communities and the world.
California's Best
Edited by Sunset Magazine's Peter Fish, this unique and long-overdue collection of features works by iconic California writers and poets of the last two centuries, including Wallace Stegner, Tobias Wolff, Joan Didion, Amy Tan, and John Muir. 6x9
Because Writing Matters
This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.
The Festival of San Joaquin
Luz Marina, cleared of the murder of her abusive husband, is released from prison determined to rebuild her life with her children, in spite of poverty, guilt, vanity and vengeance.
The Heart of California
2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath's trip retracing Latta's route by car during the 2014 drought. Latta embarked on his journey to publicize the need for dams and levees to improve flood control. Gilbreath made his own trip to profile Latta and the productive agricultural world that damming has created in the San Joaquin Valley, to describe the region's nearly lost indigenous culture and ecosystems, and to bring this complex yet largely ignored landscape to life. The Valley is home to some of California's fastest growing cities and, by some estimates, produces 25 percent of America's food. The Valley feeds too many people, and is too unique, to be ignored. To understand California, you have to understand the Valley. Mixing travel writing, historical recreations, western history, natural history, and first-person reportage, The Heart of California is a road-trip narrative about this fascinating region and its most important early documentarian.
