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.
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