Today...what a great place to be! I've learned so much and it's only the 2nd day. Especially on my anniversary. It's a good thing I'm at least having dinner with my husband this evening.
Okay onto more serious issues. Reading the Elbow selection was difficult, confusing, yet interesting all in one. The best part was choosing a sentence that spoke to me. The only difficulty with this was the actual choosing of one. It was hard to choose just one. I chose the sentence dealing with helping students love their writing and love their own ideas. I felt that valuing a students' work, words, and thoughts, would allow them to write, take chances, and be willing to share.
The microtheme was an excellent way to begin our day as well. Noticing so many of the same ideas about the qualities of a good writing instructor was comforting. The teaching demo was helpful and I was able to come up with some ways to use a few of the ideas in 1st grade.
Finally, we discussed our personal essays. So many ideas and I have no idea how I'm going to put them together to make sense to anyone other than myself. So now I have lots of work to do and only a little time to do it in.
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Happy Anniversary! I agree with your view on Elbow. It was difficult but interesting! I also liked the activity we did with the sentences. I had a hard time choosing 1 sentence!! It was great to hear everyone's interpretation!
Happy Anniversary. Hope you don't have to cut your evening short to read!!! I am also having trouble with some of the Elbow reading. He seems to talk out of both sides of his mouth sometimes. Tough reading, but it does make me think.
Elbow was difficult to read but the activity was great. Despite all the different sentences we selected they all seemed to relate to each other by the time we finished discussing them. I thought this was a great way to help us discern the main ideas of this text.
Happy Anniversary!
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