TL 525 - Week 2

Greetings!

I am already hooked on this notebook and am almost always thinking of things I can put into it.  This might become my new addiction!  Hey... I could have bigger problems.

I have added several things since last week.  First of all, I started doing some prewriting that I had assigned my senior composition students.  I gave them five subjects: censorship, weapons, the draft, North Korea, and college.  They were told to create a mental inventory for each subject.  After this, they were to create five questions they could answer regarding their subject.  Finally, they were to choose a topic and create a thesis statement for that topic.  Here is one of mine:

I am embarrassed to admit that this was the first time I had done this assignment with the students.  The first thing I noticed was that they were doing incomplete work.  It took me a full page to really do one topic for the assignment, and I had been receiving several per page.  Talk about a wake-up call.  It was also nice to have my students see me struggle with the ideas and let my mind wander.

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My new grandson, Michael Robert, has been at the forefront of my brain this week, so many of my entries have been about him.  Here are two artifacts and short writings I have added to my notebook about him:

I also decided to make my longish entry about him.  It is written as if I was speaking to him and explaining what is happening to him.

Just for fun, I am attaching a couple of colored pictures that were taken of him yesterday.  He is doing so well!  

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The final thing that I would like to share this week is my attempt at doing the Six-Word Memoirs mentioned in Brittney Scholler's week one notebook post.  As noted on the bottom of the page, I feel that my attempts sound more like a poem to my grandson than little separate memoirs.  I may have to try this again.

TL 525 Week 1

Hey all!

I, too, could not get my pictures to align properly using blackboard, so I decided to quickly post my pictures this way.  I hope it works for everyone.

My first three pictures are of the lists that we were asked to create for the Writing Workshop assignment.  This was fun for me because I ask my students to do things like this all the time.  I really need to be doing more of these type of assignments with them.

This next picture is of the writing I did off of my second list which I entitled, "5 Things about Me that Need Explanation (which I rarely give because...hey, let people think what they want!)."

Here I just wanted to try my hand at some creativity and adding a picture to my notebook.  I am not really a crafty person, and I have seen so many beautiful entries already.

After family my writing reads, "We all play many roles--It all works for us!"

This final picture is of my reaction to a quote from the YouTube videos we were asked to watch for this week.