This sounds so familar! It’s what I teach my students to do – begin with the middle, and worry about that introduction later. It’s also a good reminder to students frustrated with organizing an essay that learning to organize writing is a relevant lesson.
On most occasions, when I have something to say, I just write [...]
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Here are some quick links to some of the articles you wrote that stick out to me:
on Character:
Nick considers the main character in Bleachers
Jean2008 evaluates the main character in A Separate Peace
on Plot:
Punchdrunklove reacts to the ending of Go Ask Alice
Frenchfrybaby predicts what will happen in The Legacy
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“Hey, I’ve got that new video from the Headless Gringos. Wanna hear it?”
“Yeah – give me an ear.” Greg removed the white headphone from his right ear and handed it to Solomon, who slipped in the pounding ear piece. The two sat at a table in the library, ‘researching.’
“I love this part,” Greg whispered. “He [...]
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To follow our discussion last class about the importance and relevance of telling stories, I thought I’d point you to a blog I like to read. It is written by a mom in Salt Lake City, and she makes a living blogging. She has a knack for recognizing great stories in her life and she [...]
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I’ve been browsing photos over lunch today, and things like this amaze me. Yes, I’d like to visit the Great Wall (if given a free plane ticket and boarding), but more than that, I want to visit it right there – the moment this picture was taken.
It seems to me that great photography [...]
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Having discussed the magic of concrete stories, I’d like you to tell your own.
There is, in a sense, a length requirement here. I’d like it to be at least 10 sentences, but I can be flexible if your story is well crafted.
If you want to excell particularly, consider giving your story a bit of perspective, [...]
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A note to my juniors as they begin reading a book of their choosing and writing about them on their blogs. Reading What You Want
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A note to my juniors as they begin reading a book of their choosing and writing about them on their blogs. Reading What You Want
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Original image: ‘untitled’ www.flickr.com/photos/69175158@N00/75346809 by: Iacopo Sassarini
Released under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
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I do wonder what my students got for Christmas, even if I wouldn’t know after they told me. But for their sakes, my hope for them is summarized by a quote I read this week on a Starbucks’ coffee cup:
For all those parents who wonder, How do I get my kids to read? – [...]
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A podcast about when I overwhelm my students and how hard it is to detect.
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