Embracing the
multi-genre element of the blog and bowing to the craft, humor, and
metaphorical vehicles which have come before me, I’ve chosen to summarize a
different facet of yesterday’s class.
In life, I take
notes and write exercises in order for my brain to consume the learning;
revision: I take notes and write
exercises in the hope that my brain will consume the learning. It is really my heart which remembers. So, as an homage to Sasha and her Gratitude List with
which she began our “camp,” (and set the spirit-tone) the following is merely a
scattering of the gifts offered yesterday.
(John, invited
himself to paused to recoup)
Amy W., invited us to pause and reconsider
Inviting a gadfly:
“What makes you feel sad, mad… feel something?”
Deflecting her humor:
“Just ignore [my] sarcastic undertones.”
Celebrating creativity:
“Just picture an elephant doing yoga.”
Nancy, invited us
to pause
and think
On
“most chicks”:
“I’m
better than a dirty throng.”
Finding
a place for poetic contradictions:
“Like
Blake’s ‘necessary contradictions.’”
On her
elocutive elephant:
[quote
too dense to scribe, but hilarious]
Kim, invited us
to pause
and motivate
Her
solution to a pet peeve:
“I
wrote a letter to my roommate on how to make ice.”
Her
kind-hearted teacher reflection on the LPAs”
“There’s
nothing in here for [my students] to write for fun!”
As
she moved us forward in her demo lesson on comics:
“I’m
curious…”
“I’m
curious…”
“I’m
curious…”
“I’m
curious…”
“I’m
curious…”
And
her conclusion:
“Pictures
drive text.”
Heather, invited
us to pause and ask
After
examining our peeves:
“I’m
pumped UP!”
Looking
to make sense of Carrie’s controversial photo:
“It’s
what we infer.”
And
her solution:
“For
me, I don’t really say good or bad. I
just have some questions.”
Cindy, invited
us to pause and feel
After
Carrie’s brave lesson:
“Aho”
On
the baby’s photo:
“I love
the intent in the gaze. They are
connected and I think that connection is beautiful.”
On
Carrie’s decision to post questions vs. objectives:
“Ahhh-
WOW!”
And
constantly throughout Kim’s lesson:
“Right!” and “I
like it!”
Audra, invited us
to
pause
and look forward
On
revision:
“This
is the process of being a teacher of writing. [Savor] the process and save all
drafts. Show students how messy real
writing is.”
Regarding
automatic sinks:
“A
first world problem; try not having water.”
On the
jogger:
“I’m
going to cry.”
And
quoting UpWorthy:
“Composition
can be more than words on the page.”
Margaret, invited
us to pause and come together
Inside
the learning process:
“What’s
the difference there? [Don’t answer]
Just park that.”
On
challenges:
“It’s a
reach for all of us. We’re all getting
our minds… our hearts around all of this.”
An
argument’s breadth:
“If
reasonable people can disagree, then it is a good argument.”
Celebrating
Kim’s activity:
“Let’s
do it!”
Jeanne, invited
us to pause and consider (Occam’s Razor)
On
the photo discussion:
“It
needs to be something familiar.”
The
comic strip is:
“A chapter”
“A chapter”
Interpreting
the images:
“We
needed to tell the story backwards.”
Carrie, invited us to pause and react
With hands open, offered her history:
“That comes from my family’s language.”
Tanizi, hello
Aho, amen or I agree
On her authority:
“I come from, I think, a place of
honesty and expertise.”
Teaching argument:
“We’re empowering kids to speak out
and have an opinion.”
On the disenfranchised:
“We must unite in our infirmities
against those who seek our extension.”
“… join me, will you?”
Sasha, invited us
to
pause
and keep going
On
OWP:
“I’ve
renamed it Writing Boot Camp.”
On
blogging:
“[It’s
hard] having to put it out in the world to be read by anyone.”
On the
work this week:
“I
just have to tackle [writing] like I’m going to tackle this messy house, by
tidying up one small corner at a time.”
After
Amy’s arm-up:
“I
want to write more!”
Encouraging
the demo lesson:
“Carry-on,
Carrie!”
And a final pause
to consider our slogan options, thus far:
Let’s get write to the essence!
Writing…
source for language come alive!
Rewriting is
like rearranging the furniture.
(sorry, I could not add clever marks)
Writing is messy!
To Funny! The
pen: mightier than the sword!
And with that, I
gently lay down my pen. Thank you all
for these jewels.
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