Here are this week’s baby bird pictures. He’s very uncooperative and well-camoflauged. Silly darned bird.
Category: Personal Journal
A Writer’s Procrastination
Feeling like a writer means that your writing process accomplishes the following things when you’re trying to finally finish chapter three: rewrote deadlines on the whiteboard erased deadlines and rewrote them as a calendar cleaned up the desk cleaned up…
Drafting “Teaching Language Experts”
After two days of crazy writing in the office this week, I finally managed to finish an article for Classroom Notes Plus. It’s actually really long, so I’m sure that there will be rewriting to bring it down to the…
Baby Bird Update
Baby bird (only one is in the nest) is growing. He’s exceptionally uncooperative and moves when I try to take his picture. He’s now able to hold up his little head, and his eyes are open. Mama was hanging around…
Beliefs About the Teaching of Writing: 7, 8, 9
Belief #7: Done Belief #8: Done Belief #9: Started :) Nine is harder, but it’s about language and the complexity of social relationships. Still maybe I’ll manage to get this done on time. Did well in the office this afternoon…
Beliefs About the Teaching of Writing: 5
Belief #5 done. Thank God. And now, on to #7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. It’s going to be a long week, and yet also incredibly short, as I have to have this done by Saturday, along with an article…
Brainstormed Teaching Activities
Out of either laziness or incredible wisdom, I’m posting notes on things I taught in the past. Really this is just a collection for me to pull from as I’m working on the chapter. It’s likely that none of it…
Baby Birds Hatch!
So I decided to check, and at least one has hatched :) and s/he really didn’t understand why I wasn’t providing food. Unfortunately, all I did was torture the poor thing. I couldn’t get the picture that I wanted, so…
Anne Frank 2006: War Diaries Online – New York Times
Anne Frank 2006: War Diaries Online – New York Times—a great article for one of my ‘how would this text be written if the characters were writing today instead of in the past.’ Yes, I know that Anne Frank isn’t…
Beliefs About the Teaching of Writing: 6
I did a little bit of writing today. Figured out the very general outline for a possible Notes Plus piece, and did a little work on Belief #6. I have the notes worked our for #5, so it seemed more…