Or

Comment here about any random thought that is rolling across your brain right now.

Tuesday Blog

Comment here either about some advice you gave, some advice you heard, or some advice you would like to give about writing the inquiry paper.

April and Sue

April and Sue,

We missed you today! Hope you both are OK. This morning we spent literally cutting up our essays and having another person put it together. This afternoon Tadd did a great job with his teaching lesson of Charlotte's Web (I can't figure out how to underline this). Later we discussed, The River Earth, which we will continue doing on Tues. and Wed.

Take Care!

Today we cut our personal essays into paragraphs and had a person who had never read our essay to read and tape it back together in the way he or she read it or the way he/she thought you meant for it to be read. Many people didn't like this activity and voiced this. Some people were able to look at the reader's perspective and will make changes others chose not to and we were told that was ok.

In the loop

Let's see. Today we had a very traumatizing experience with the drafts for our reflective papers and some scissors (just kidding). We spent the morning working with our papers and made some very interesting revisions. I learned a lot. In the afternoon Tad did his teaching demo, which gave me some interesting insights to discussion with students, something I always want to do, but rarely get the results I'm looking for. He also sang for us, which was very cool. This afternoon we panicked about format and discussed the dark side of River of Earth. I'm hoping we get to the happy portion soon, despite how little happiness there was in the novel.

Today's class

April and Sue,

we started the day by cutting and pasting our Personal essays. If you have an urge to replicate the experience, allow a four year old to take a (kid-safe) scissors to your rough draft. Then you climb onto the roof of your house and launch the pieces into the lawn below. Hurry/scurry down the steps and collect as many of the pieces as you can, (don't worry about chasing down the ones blown down the street) then let your neighbor try to piece the essay back together.

Actually, the exercise was a little different than that, but in short the organizational method (most people used some sort of chronology in telling their tale), should be questioned and perhaps changed to suit the needs of the piece.

We all hope to see you two real soon.

Monday's Thread

Today, I would like you folks to blog a comment that would help April and Sue stay in the loop. Write a comment on something that you saw, heard, or thought today that would help them feel like they haven't missed anything too important.