The Cobblestone
At Saturday's literacy conference, good friend Menosky gave a great talk about all the newest coolest books. She always pairs her book talks with amazing invitations for students to respond to the books in creative and critical ways. Out of her book box, D hauled an old cobblestone that had been removed from a street where a slave auction site was located in Virginia. Her students read the stone along with poems about slavery. I brought the stone in to class today and the sixers read it as a text. Tomorrow, they'll do some writing about the stone, putting themselves into its story. Pumped up for quarter 4. Yay.
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today the sixers wrote some strong pieces.
what are you all reading for the final quarter up in the big leagues?
geez louise.
then we're doing readers' choice, which is what we call lit circles in the h.s.
ethical issues writing sounds way cool to me. and hard to do.
change of subject, i'm quite fond of this photo. the swirling smoke, the colorful candles?
N
of course it will storm. why wouldn't it????
but we know it won't stop us.