When not winning books, :) I’ve mostly spent today editing. More accurately, rewriting and editing. First, I reformatted and made minor tidinesses to a framing text for a new Kit that is to come out next week. This one is…
Author: Traci Gardner
I’m a winner!
Hey, my writing actually got me something!!! Woohoo!!!
Worker Bee
Today has been a worker day. First thing, I finished up the Inbox Ideas section on Summer Reading (rough copy). It will go out tomorrow afternoon. I updated and edited a calendar entry on Yusef Komunyakaa. It had been cut…
Geography Club
X-posted to teenliterature Geography Club by Brent Hartinger. HarperCollins, 2003. In this young adult novel, a group of students gathers to form a geography club, “a club that’s so boring, nobody would ever in a million years join it” (63).…
Turtlepoet
If last weekend I was speedwriter, this weekend I seem to be turtlepoet. Every line must be just so. Every blessed word must be right before I can go on to the next. I started with a chapter that had…
TengrrlFeed
So based on Perci‘s suggestion, I’m going to stop updating the LiveJournal. I made a feed of my Blogger site to LJ (TengrrlFeed), and that’s all I need. Besides having a FEED is so making me think of MT Anderson.…
Unpredicted Developments
Well, I’ve been somewhat less productive today, compared to yesterday. Yesterday, I somehow worked on 4 different projects, turning in all the proposals, revising and editing a lesson, AND I think I republished my blogger site at least 2 dozen…
Digital Divide + Pyramid = Rotund Sphere
The Washington Post article You Are What You Click includes a number of quotations on how the digital divide limits the Health Department’s method of educating the world about its new pyramid scheme.
RWT Lesson: Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser
I just finished editing Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in Death and the Miser. Okay, maybe it’s not what you’d use in your typical writing class, but it does play with visual analysis. From there you might go on to…
Shakespeare Resources
This week’s Inbox is live, in which the Ideas section (which I write) points to K–college resources for teaching drama/Shakespeare, in celebration of the bard’s birthday this coming Saturday.