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@PaulWHankins
Aug 17, 2019 • 8 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
@FletcherRalph has a new book coming in September from @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD (and I've pre-ordered, friends). The idea of the book has got me thinking and making this morning. Here is a quick collage to share and an idea to share. It will take a few tweets. #Room407 #THIS407
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD There used to a monthly magazine, MENTAL FLOSS, that I would pick up from stands. One of the features of the magazine was something called "1006 Words" which was really like a synthesis of ekphrasis and the 6-Word movement (inspired, according to folklore by Earnest Hemingway).
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD This is a quick collage I threw together this morning using an old Subaru ad, a crisp, beautiful backdrop of a bird feather and two phrases that seemed to work with the image. All of this is placed in an IKEA frame I got for a dollar.
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD See how this becomes an invitation to write out of the six words or the thousand-and-six words?

What does a "birds-eye view?" reveal or invite for consideration?

How might going to the balcony help us to tell and to write our story more consciously and conscientiously?
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD From the bird's perspective, what is beauty and what is burden?

Can we take wing and fly up and away from the ground clutter?
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD Now, what we have is a synthesis of image, text, and collage arrangement that taps into visual, verbal, spatial, and tangible in a lesson that could be invited in a writing workshop at all grade levels (I've presented prompts as they might be invited of a secondary ELA student).
@FletcherRalph @HeinemannPub @HeinemannPD @FletcherRalph Ralph: I don't know if this is a part of the new book or not, but you are welcome to this idea as are my teacher friends here at Twitter. #satchat @ncte @writingproject @ILAToday
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Feb 2, 2021
New Picture Book by @mattdelapena and Christian Robinson. New picture book from Matt de la Peña with illustrations by Christian Robinson.

Milo boards the subway on a Sunday morning as nervous as a "shook-up soda."

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While aboard the train, he observes the other passengers, imagining their lives in extended narrative as he renders them in pictures in the notebook he carries aboard with him.
From the creators of LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET comes a new story that asks the reader to ride with Milo as he draws as many inferences as he does illustrations, arriving at deeper truths that present as lesson to the reader by the book's end.
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Feb 2, 2021
We had an eLearning Day yesterday so the first order of business today in #Room407 was to center our work around the idea of Black History Month. This is not "claps" or "likes." It's the thing I can do inside of the classroom that centers, captures, and celebrates this month.
The way we did this was to present CARTER READS THE NEWSPAPER by Deborah Hopkinson with illustrations by Don Tate. The book not only features Carter G. Woodson. The endpapers become a visual wallpaper of important figures to consider and share.
Again. This is about the month. This is about celebration. It's also about centering people and assuring that they can be seen in our working and learning space. Friends, this is work I was NOT doing in 2004. I can do it today. I will do it today. I will keep on doing it.
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Jan 31, 2021
Please forgive a few food prep and feel-good Tweets in the moment. Remember, about three weeks ago, I didn't give two figs for this subject (but still felt urgings/leanings). What I might offer is this. A Paul who feels better starts to share creative ideas and approaches again.
For me (first) and then I might speak to the men. Friends and followers here read/saw me through a very difficult 2020. You didn't unfollow. You didn't block. You could have. I am grateful to all of you. I have little to offer, but I offer it earnestly and freely.
Men: I lost the handle on my own program. I was doing great about three years ago. So, I have put all of the weight back on. And it seemed like maybe I would not be able to take it off again over 50. These feelings that become beliefs can become damn near fatal.
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Nov 24, 2019
Let me have a couple of tweets to get some images to the #toetagmonologues group who performed this afternoon @ncte's Annual Conference. #NCTE19 #NCTE2019. Powerful powerful performance. These young people should have had a larger space.
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Oct 26, 2019
This is the Gold Star by our light switch in #Room407. Purchased at Goodwill for a quarter, it is a symbol of affirmation for our students as they leave each day. For two months, I watched as students would touch, tap, or gently palm the star as they left. But, then, one day. . .
I came back after an absence. I turned on the light switch to find the Gold Star still on the wall but fractured. I was very upset. I felt as though a positive initiative on its way to new tradition had failed. All that held the Star together was the sticker and Command Strips.
I brought the fractured star home and I have kept it in this state for a few weeks now. Students have been upset. They wanted to know when the star would come back. I just didn’t know. Could we put it back and not acknowledge it’s having been broken? I couldn’t see how we could.
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Sep 8, 2019
I'll break down this collage inspired by @halseanderson's SPEAK in the next few tweets. #SpeakLoudly #DisruptTexts #Room407 #THIS407
@halseanderson First, I want you to know that this "exquisite corpse" (some of you might call these floor or table "storms) came together in ten minutes. Tops. From one brand new magazine delivered yesterday (I didn't want you to think I had been sitting with this and pre-composed in process.
@halseanderson Artist friend Melissa Sweet asked me about "exquisite corpses" in the classroom yesterday. I had been thinking about floor storms in the past couple of weeks. Artists. In community. We seem to know how to tap into something latent in another. The question/invitation is the tap.
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