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Writing, Sailing, Teaching: What He Could Do
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Writing, Sailing, Teaching. Friday, July 24, 2009. What He Could Do. What He Could Do. With pins or pegs,. Pour iced tea, eat. The cellar doors and. Feel the cool draft of the basement. Burn black coffee. Fry potatoes, bacon,. Coagulating in the cast iron pan. Drive logs down a flume. Drive. A line horse. Drive a weathered post. Or the hammer. Speak. Plain Be patient. Love. With a nod of his head. With apologies to Elizabeth Holmes. July 26, 2009 at 7:43 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Response t...
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Kelly Felton: Reaffirming the Writing Workshop - Sheryl Lain
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Reaffirming the Writing Workshop - Sheryl Lain. I didn't post when I initially read this article. There were just too many important points that took my brain in too many directions to focus on the workshop as a whole then. Now I can step back and look at it more objectively with experience from our workshop. July 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM. I am like you and need time away from the article. I have been very pleased with my use of the notebook with middle school students. Christy. July 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM.
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Living on the edge of a dream....: Leaving a Trace
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Thursday, July 30, 2009. For my personal book, I read Leaving a Trace. Some ideas she mentioned in the latter chapters of the book:. 1 Keep a journal for the sole reason to have a resource for future writing. Think of it as a data collection device. She suggests keeping journals for different reasons, and to keep information separate and organized. The introductory chapter set the tone: the author had read the journal of a...
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Living on the edge of a dream....: The Sticking Place
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Monday, July 27, 2009. Learning it is a sign of growth. The line in bold type should stand out to us: students (and all writers) need to stand behind or beside their words. The Chinese character for "sincerity" is formed by two radicals, one for man. And the other for word. Thus, the Chinese idea of sincerity is a man standing by his word. Perhaps we are not sincere enough. Yeah, perhaps we need to just get real. On Harper...
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Living on the edge of a dream....: On "Helping Writers Find Power"
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Monday, July 20, 2009. On "Helping Writers Find Power". I was impressed with the author's suggestion to "flood the room with useful wall charts," and especially ones that the students have created to help their peers. The author points to patterns. July 22, 2009 at 11:08 PM. I started using more wall charts and found it to be so helpful to students ( and to me! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). George F. Johnson. Barry L...
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Living on the edge of a dream....: Writing Steps/Warne
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Sunday, July 19, 2009. Some scholars argue that generalizations about writing processes are far too removed from real-world practice, inevitably turn into rigid rules, or create paralyzing self-consciousness.". So much for my undergraduate training! Remember the debate over the teaching of "Eubonics" in the California public schools? July 22, 2009 at 9:57 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). George F. Johnson. I'll take...
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Living on the edge of a dream....: On "What's Right With Writing" (Rief)
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Monday, July 20, 2009. On "What's Right With Writing" (Rief). In his essay "The Art of Writing," ancient Chinese poet Lu Chi observed: "In making an axe handle by cutting wood with an axe, the model is indeed near at hand.". Like Lu and so many others, Rief suggests holding up models to students. In regard to using DOL (e.g., grammar-based "Mug Shots"), why use a poor model? July 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM. With the hatchet head.
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Living on the edge of a dream....: On "Conferring" (Calkins)
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Monday, July 20, 2009. Among those ideas expressed in Chapters 14-14, I thought that the author's insistence that students be their own critics, that they trust their own judgment, was the most valuable to me. Likewise, writers need to learn to spot their own errors. They need to be aware of their own pre-writing and drafting strategies, and their own approaches to revision. July 21, 2009 at 10:37 AM. George F. Johnson.
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Living on the edge of a dream....: On Harper's Writer's Toolbox
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Tuesday, July 21, 2009. On Harper's Writer's Toolbox. It's obvious that Harper is not reinventing the wheel, but is giving it a good push up the hill. I really like her approach to making Lane's ideas accessible through the use of graphic shorthand. I'm with her all the way about having a common language,and symbols do the trick. I'm not sure what kinds of symbols I would use, but I think it's worth contemplating. I Am Fro...
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Living on the edge of a dream....: Warne on Teaching Conventions in a State-Mandated Testing Context
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Living on the edge of a dream. Writings, musings, photographs and other artifacts. Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Warne on Teaching Conventions in a State-Mandated Testing Context. We all face the dilemma of having to "teach to the test," whether the ISAT for you Idahoans, or the WASL for us Washington teachers. As is typical, I had to prepare students to write two-point and three-point responses to a prompt. I hated it as much as my students did. But I digress. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Barry Lane: D...
