{"id":342,"date":"2005-12-08T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2005-12-08T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T02:21:00","slug":"342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/342\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow&#8230;the ground is all white today. NCTE even closed an hour early. Of course, I just came home and continued working. I&#8217;m writing up a lesson that I used to do in FYC. Students explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15487\">Richard Wright&#8217;s poem &#8220;The Writer&#8221;<\/a> then come up with writing metaphors of their own. I&#8217;ve customized it over the year, but it&#8217;s always been essentially the same lesson. It&#8217;s fairly basic really, but the Advisory Board for ReadWriteThink pointed out that we needed more &#8220;basic&#8221; pieces. They noticed that so many of our lessons are pushing teachers. They suggested that we add some basic lessons, so I&#8217;m going through my files and pulling out some of the things that I used to teach. They need minor changes, but most are quite close to 9-12 lessons already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow&#8230;the ground is all white today. NCTE even closed an hour early. Of course, I just came home and continued working. I&#8217;m writing up a lesson that I used to do in FYC. Students explore Richard Wright&#8217;s poem &#8220;The Writer&#8221; then come up with writing metaphors of their own. I&#8217;ve customized it over the year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqzI8-342","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}