Tuesday, June 22

Writing Into the Day (9:05 to 9:25) - Becky

Artifact Writing:

Take a look through your photo gallery on you phone, your social media, or some pictures or quotes that you’ve saved over the years on various apps and places. Find 1 or 2 pictures, quotes, or images that you believe really represents who you are.

If you are writing about it in a digital space, you could include insert/copy and paste the image by your writing. If you are writing in a physical space, you can describe the picture.

Free write about this picture or memory. Explain why you chose it and why it represents who you are. However, here are some questions to guide your thinking about your artifact:

• How did you get the artifact?

• What was the occasion?

• Is there a story behind it?

• Why do you keep it?

• What does it represent to you now, years later?

• What would your mother, father, or friend say about this item?

• What does this artifact make you think about?

• What does it make you feel?

Break (10: 30 - 10:45)

Segment 2 (10:45 to 12:15)

• CRTD - Whole Group

  • CRTD Template (Force Copy)

  • Standards and Benchmarks to Consider:

    • Common Core ELA Standards

    • ISTE Standards for Students

    • "At-a-Glance" List of ILA/NCTE/ISTE Literacy Standards

    • Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing

    • NCTE's Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing

    • Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

    • Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde's "Best Practices" in Teaching Writing

• CRTD in Writing Group/Writing Time

• Writing out of the Day (WOTD):

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.

There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”

― Neil Gaiman

What is the story only YOU can tell?

Next Steps/Possible Asynchronous Experience:

• • • The National Council of Teachers of English has been hosting "Member Gatherings" throughout the pandemic, and you can view the archives here.

    • The International Literacy Association has a number of upcoming and archived webinars that are free for everyone.

    • The National Writing Project has a YouTube channel and NWP Radio, with years and years of archives!

    • Webinars: choose and watch an archived session from our 2020-21 Webinar Series.

    • Watch one of the videos of Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher talk about teaching English during the spring of 2020 and 2021.

    • Listen or finish listening to Part 1 and Part 2 of Troy Hicks interview Zaretta Hammond, the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, on the podcast Writing Matters.