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Day 4 #OxbowWritingProject: Multi-genre Geography of Bliss - Happiness Digital Maps by @MsBaldridge. Side note: I just loved the title of this one, and it was the first TDD where I felt like I ran out of time to create what I wanted! 1/10
Exercise to try: Begin by writing about a place in your life where you have been happy. This could be written in any genre; I wrote a paragraph for that first one, but it could be a poem, list, anything. This exercise could stand on its own. 2/10
Expanded exercise: Use @padlet to create a map of [3-5] places that represent your happiness. Add photos, videos, etc. of the place, and use the note space to write about each place. Students can then share their maps with each other. This is a great way to build community. 3/10
#OxbowWritingProject Day 3 - Word Choice and Connotation - guiding Q: How does connotation change meaning and impact a reader's understanding? 1/7
Really excellent reminder from a teacher of emergent multilinguals about equity in language: Be aware of academic fatigue. Authors make assumptions about who is reading their text, and some word choices make reading even more [unnecessarily] challenging for students. 2/7
Exercise to try: Have students write 1-3 sentences in response to a prompt. Brainstorm synonyms for 1+ key word(s). Replace original words with new words. Reflect on how this does/not change the meaning and which sentence they like better and why. 3/7
Day 2 of #OxbowWritingProject opening teaching demo was about images + words, including the provocative idea that decoding an image is different from using an image as a story starter. 1/
Exercise to try: OPTIC Analysis (Minor, 2021) 2/ ncte.org/blog/2021/01/v…
Exercise to try: Creative Connection Spaces- 1) Heading (Theme), 2) Answer - Meaningful connection to today's text w/ image, 3) Bridge - Explain choices, thought process, how reading connects to response. [My note: This reminded me of sketch notes / interactive notebook.] 3/
Better-late-than-never reflection on my first day with #OxbowWritingProject with @write2memags and amazing teachers. I am absolutely LOVING the teaching demonstrations - many cool ideas that I would like to try in my own classroom and pass along to my teacher candidates. 1/
First up was a great reminder that there are multiple types of #listening that are context-dependent: conversational, reflective, and rhetorical. Elementary students are explicitly taught about listening, while secondary students typically are not (but prob should be!). 2/
Exercise to try: Perspective-taking in writing. This could be prompted by looking at a historical photo and taking the perspective of a person in the photo, which is what we practiced. I may use this as inspiration for some of my own historical fiction writing this week. 3/
