I have a feeling that this post is not going to be long. I know I'm kind of just going through the motions of doing it. I didn't really enjoy the readings this week, and I've been trying to figure out why. I think it's because some of the readings seemed to be very elementary. Graves says, "If young people do not care about what they are writing, if they do not own their work... then it profits little to lecture on parallel structure or rhetorical strategy or whatever." When I was reading that, I was thinking "well yeah, I think that obvious."
In Rex's article, she talks about writing from the gut, and I think it's a really good idea. The problem is as the teacher, you have to know that your classroom is a safe space for those kinds of writings. The kinds of writings like Linda's in the article could be really scary for a novice teacher, but you definitely don't want "dummy runs" as she said.
All right, my voice recognition software is going to hell today, so I was correct when I said this post was not going to be long.
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