When rock star Nick Thompson comes to their class, the eighth-graders are awestruck by this famous performer who compares writing songs to an arrangement of fruit and challenges them to tell a story about the same topic in as many different forms as possible.When rock star Nick Thompson comes to their class, the eighth-graders are awestruck by this famous performer who compares writing songs to an arrangement of fruit and challenges them to tell a story about the same topic in as many different forms as possible.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A teacher invites rock star Nick Thompson to talk to the kids in the eighth-grade Writer's Workshop. The words used to write his music lyrics are as unique as paint is to a painter.

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