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Time for collective reflection https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uN-DTQIHPhZHS6oh3wGoNSxb6XPJy_nQdWgVsNdCMdw/edit?usp=sharing    

Guided Reflection Protocol Simon Hole and Grace Hall McEntee, Reflection Is at the Heart of Practice. 1999 | Volume 56 | Number 8 Educational Leadership: Supporting New Teachers Pages 34-37

Last week, we focused on why we write and developed our identities as writers.  We discussed purpose, audience, genre, and exigence. This week, we are moving from writing purposes to writing products, from “why do we write?” to “what is good … Continue reading →

Exigence = Urgent situation requiring one to respond (in writing) When we sit down to write, we have to make a choice about which task to tackle first.  Should we write a poem about how much we love our kid, … Continue reading →

Where does the title come from? Why do you think Anne’s brother (and so many other writers) procrastinates? What is Anne Lamott afraid of? What is she anxious about? How does she manage her fear and get back to the … Continue reading →

Does the structure of your grocery list shape your behavior, or does your behavior shape the structure of your grocery list? Carolyn R. Miller and others have defined genres as typified communicative actions in recurring situations. In other words, recognizable … Continue reading →

Who are we writing to? What do we know about our audience? How does that shape our texts? Our students are often writing for an audience that they don’t know well. Their teachers know more and have experienced more than … Continue reading →

Why do humans  write? “Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit … Continue reading →

I love John Dewey’s “This I Believe” essay, written in 1897.  It’s called “My Pedagogic Creed,” and it always reminds me to make the classroom a real community, to make every writing invitation a real invitation to meaningful action.  If … Continue reading →

Our first task this morning is to get to know one another better.  Let’s start with our names.  A common writing task at the beginning of a class is this one: Write about your name in order to introduce yourself … Continue reading →