In the course of helping with the Writing Improvement (WI) class yesterday, the English teacher and I had a brainstorm: Zombieland!

We teach in an alternative high school, so our students are more than usually against the idea of writing anything at all, even in a writing class. We have been following Baron Wormser's and David Cappella's Poetry-Centered Classroom approach in the WI class this year, having had to re-write the entire curriculum last summer, and while…