The Beliefs
We read Rick Moody's This I Believe essay about reading today, preparing for our own essays of beliefs about literacy. One kid insisted that he had no beliefs about reading. I asked, "Do you like to read?"
He answered, "No. It's stupid and pointless."
I said, "Well that's a belief. Write it down."
As I tried to lead a discussion of belief statements, another kid started singing the theme song from the MTV show, Sweet 16, which I have to admit is pretty catchy.
I happened to watch it last night instead of grading literature logs, so we talked about the show for awhile before I exercised my authority and tried to redirect. We didn't get far with the essay planning. We'll see how tomorrow goes. On a good note, I finished up a small section of dissertation and now can move on to a new, harder section. yay.
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I used a section of that essay in my PowerPoint on my life as a literate being for Harste's class. I also included Blogging and emailed him later to let him know that you were my inspiration for the blogging project in my class -- as well as many other things. :-)
judy
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4816313
it's gotten the kids all fired up about choice. not sure if that's a good thing or not.
hr, you are feeling better i trust??? your blogging project looks way cool. may have to copy you.