Writing to Learn--"Bizarro Don"

I think that my favorite writing to learn activity has to have been the justification of our inquiry question to "Bizarro Don". I think it was useful to get some experience in defending our work as authors. I like the idea of using letter writing in the classroom as well. It seems to take the focus off of the "ohmygod it's a paper" reaction and put it back into the focus of the assignment.

I think this activity helped me to focus my ideas and really figure out what I wanted to talk about and what I wanted to say about it. Now I can't figure out how I want to say what I want to say about what I want to talk about, but that's my blocking issue. Anyway, I can't wait to use it in my classroom.