{"id":708,"date":"2006-11-12T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2013-08-02T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:17:31","slug":"my-writing-six-week-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/12\/my-writing-six-week-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"My Writing: Six-Week Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the path of procrastination, instead of finishing the edit on the lesson plan I&#8217;ve been working on, I&#8217;ve been catching up on some blog entries. I&#8217;ve sent out a number of pieces, and it seems like a summary is in order (if only to prove to myself that I really have accomplished something recently). Here goes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Rosetta Stones&#8221; published in the October 2006 <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Classroom Notes Plus<\/span> in the &#8220;Focus on Language&#8221; section. The article describes an activity I&#8217;ve used to invite students to craft their own Rosetta Stones to show off their abilities with different language and dialects. It&#8217;s a great activity for ELL\/ESL students.\n<li>&#8220;Effective Writing Assignments in the Age of Standardized Writing Assessment&#8221; was rejected by <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">English Journal<\/span>. I completely restructured and revised it, turning it into Chapter 5 of the book manuscript.\n<li>&#8220;Write Like You Talk&#8221; accepted for the Snapshots column of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">English Journal<\/span>, to be published in the March 2007 issue. The article describes an wonderful experience I had when I urged students to use their own language, rather than the language of the academy in a writing assignment.\n<li>&#8220;Bridging Television and Literature: Literacy Practices that Matter In and Out of the Classroom&#8221; accepted for the Fall 2006 issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">California English<\/span>. The article lists ten activities that explore television and literature with today&#8217;s media-savvy students.\n<li>&#8220;Judged by Language&#8221; tentatively accepted for the January 2007 issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Classroom Notes Plus<\/span>. The article describes a first-person narrative assignment that introduces some of the political and cultural ways that language affects who we are and how others react to us.\n<li>Proposed an article on YA novels that deal specifically with e-mail, text messages, and blogs for the Bold Books column of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">English Journal<\/span>. Proposal accepted. Need to have the piece written by early to mid December.\n<li>AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, submitted the six-chapter book manuscript, which has only taken me three years to write. More accurately, it took me 2 years to research and focus my ideas. It was primarily written from June 1 to Nov 1. Now I&#8217;m in the waiting stage to see if the reviewers respond positively and it gets accepted.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the path of procrastination, instead of finishing the edit on the lesson plan I&#8217;ve been working on, I&#8217;ve been catching up on some blog entries. I&#8217;ve sent out a number of pieces, and it seems like a summary is in order (if only to prove to myself that I really have accomplished something recently). [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17167,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/17167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}