Barack Obama on Flickr - Photo Essays - TIME - 0 views
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Erica Hartman on 18 Dec 08photo essay
Go around citing the sources of all of your ideas and people will start avoiding you, because it’s boring as hell
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ahsthisibelieve » home - 0 views
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Karl Fisch's collection of student and adult essays and podcasts in the "This I Believe" format.
7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 6 views
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What do you think of this?
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Danielle, That's precisely the question I want everyone thinking about. We truly focus so much of our energies on getting the format down and getting the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed, and for many of the students we teach, that is completely necessary; however, as we begin to look at the next phase of what we'd like to do in the district which includes more than just being "proficient" on some state test, can we blend some of the thinking in this post into what we are doing. And as for making people angry, my advice is that you don't get the results you really want without making a few people angry along the way. Not that you try to, but when you know that what you are doing will make your students better, you just go with it.
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Pat - I'd love to share this post with the kids or incorporate parts of it. I have to say that the best writing that the kids have done is usually the writing they do when we're in class and they just write. One of the hardest parts of teaching English is having to read 130 well constructed essays that follow the rubric but are so dry and boring that I have to restrain myself from stabbing my eyes out with my pen. It all goes back to the fact that in our H.S. the kids can write a great 5 paragraph essay or write persuasively but they have NO VOICE and I feel that the stress on structure and grammar could be why they have no voice. Interesting - we should discuss this a bit at our next Connections meeting!
Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - 0 views
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Great piece from Gladwell on relating teaching to NFL Quarterbacks.
NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing - 0 views
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Often, in school, students write only to prove that they did something they were asked to do, in order to get credit for it. Or, students are taught a single type of writing and are led to believe this type will suffice in all situations. Writers outside of school have many different purposes beyond demonstrating accountability, and they practice myriad types and genres. In order to make sure students are learning how writing differs when the purpose and the audience differ, it is important that teachers create opportunities for students to be in different kinds of writing situations, where the relationships and agendas are varied. Even within academic settings, the characteristics of good writing vary among disciplines; what counts as a successful lab report, for example, differs from a successful history paper, essay exam, or literary interpretation.
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Take a look at the section I highlighted.
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More fodder for writing as embodying many different forms.
This I Believe | A public dialogue about belief - one essay at a time - 0 views
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Some of our teachers have done similar projects with their students.
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