I had also read that The Boxcar Children series is still very popular among kids despite having started in the 1940s.As the book was first published 70 years ago, I was expecting it to be somewhat old-fashioned and sexist. To some degree this is true.
Then I ask the. students to write informally about their names. This 'journal writing, which is always the first step in preparation for an essay, gives the. students the freedom to record their immediate thoughts and feelings.
Though stream of consciousness is commonly associated with the work of novelists (including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner), the method has also been used effectively by writers of creative nonfiction. (See Examples and Observations, below.). The metaphor of the stream of consciousness was coined by American philosopher and psychologist William James (The Principles of Psychology, 1890). See also: 1  Freewriting. 2  Interior Monologue. 3  Narration. 4  Present Tense. 5  Submerged Metaphor.