Pongo Teen Writing Project

The Pongo Teen Writing Project has just launched a new web site that features 34 online writing activities for youth who have led difficult lives. These activities are geared to teens who may never have written before! The activities may also be downloaded for use in the classroom, etc.

Please forward this resource to teens, counselors, teachers, schools, libraries, etc. so this opportunity is available to youth who are negotiating painful life issues and difficult choices. 

As examples of writing exercises, the web site has an activity "I Just Thought You Should Know," which could be a letter to a missing parent, or "Letter After a Time," which is a letter to someone important who died. There are activities called "You Don't Know Me" and "Anger" and "Love, Sometimes" and "Addicted."

When teens finish their poems online they have the option of printing and emailing their poems to themselves and their friends, and also of submitting their poems to Pongo.
 
In addition, the site contains information for teachers, 100 teen poems, and a project journal (my blog!).
 
This web site brings together some of Pongo's best work from the last 15 years. Our writing program has served over 4,000 teens in juvenile detention, the state psychiatric hospital, homeless shelters, and other agencies. Our mission and history are available on the web site.
 
Check it out! Write your own poem! Be brilliant! And PLEASE FORWARD OUR LINK!!!
 
Home page - http://pongoteenwriting.org/
Writing Activities main page - http://pongoteenwriting.org/index.php?id=31
Teaching Resources main page - http://pongoteenwriting.org/index.php?id=127
Teen Poetry Collections main page - http://pongoteenwriting.org/index.php?id=27
Project Journal (my blog) - http://pongoteenwriting.org/index.php?id=132