It was encouraging and exciting to hear what people are writing for their fan fiction assignment. I noticed a difference in writing a book and writing a play or television episode. A book – as I have chosen to do – allows for writers to include background dialogue and important details in the script. As for play, italicized details help readers understand what is going on in the background, without including them in the actual text. Does anyone know what type of writing this is – plays and scripts?
This process of writing fanfiction, through writing conferences, time for editing, sharing pieces of our writing with the class - has been so helpful for me both in terms of being affirmed that I am on the right track, as well as in understanding the room I have for difference and creating various forms of writing.
I really appreciated the discussion we had last Tuesday about planning and organizing strategies. I found it almost freeing to know that Jill is not necessarily in full support of "the web" and it made so much sense to me that the web would be a frustrating tool for children. I loved talking about teaching organizational skills so that kids can understand that there are strategies that can be useful in writing and planning to write.....this idea is so helpful for me as well, a child who grew up "webbing" in school....and hated it!
Happy mid-term studying!!!
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Go to Edit your Template....then edit your "fun links"...you can add them there! But you need the web addresses on all of them. You can get them off of the class blog though...!
I also enjoyed the presentation about planning. I had to create the web as well in school and looking back on it that strategy did not make much sense. In order to find the web helpful we need our ideas already, it is more of an organizer tool. It is pointelsss to use if we do not have ideas and probnably why so many students find it frustrating.
Carla
It is frustrating how much students use the organizational web and now I notice it way more in other classes when the web is suggested or utilized. I like how Jill mentioned that the web is not necessarily wrong but how it depends on what is useful for the student. How would you help you studnets discover what organizational methods work for them? I'd would think that a teacher may unintentionally influence them in which method is appropriate.
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