For those of us who are teaching literature of the Vietnam war, these links may be useful. Check it.
http://www.vietnamwar.net/media/media.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
After giving our lesson on Mechanically Inclined, I got the feeling that the writer's notebook would need adaptation for the secondary classroom. I have been wondering, now, what that might look like....
Brittany's Writer's Notebook
Section 1: Writer's Secrets
Writer's secrets will essentially be the mini-lessons that I give -- pronoun usage, semi-colons, hooks, etc etc. These will all appear on the left-hand pages.
Section 2: Writer's Process
The process section will occur on the right-hand side of pages. I will ask students to leave room for "playing" in the margins and at the bottom of each page (You might be able to clarify this by asking students to start a fresh page each time they do a draft or writing prompt).
Section 3: Gems
This section would be for beautiful "stalker sentences" -- purely a place for the work of others that the student finds sticks out to them; a space for the appreciation of language and nothing else.
So yeah, now that everyone has been exposed to the writer's notebook, how would you use it or not use it?
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Ooh, good writer's notebook ideas. I'm all about this. Kelly Gallagher's writing textbook also includes a writer's notebook, and his includes pages like "Spelling Demons" (words you misspell all the time). We should compile a list of all kinds of possible writer's notebook sections as a class...
ReplyDeleteThis is great, Britt. You could even generate sections with your students so it meets their particular needs.
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