Tuesday, June 23

Writing Into the Day:

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?

Segment 2 (10:55 to 12:15)

• CRTD Time in Writing Groups (10:55 to 11:25)

  • Troy will join Becky's Group today

  • 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

• Grade-Level Cross-Talk (11:30 - 12:00)

  • "Birds of a Feather" conversations by grade level about your instructional units

• Writing Out of the Day (12:00 to 12:15)

  • Return for whole group share/writing out of the day/potential ideas for next year

Next Steps

• Instructional Unit Template (Will "Force Copy")

• Session recordings from Friday's Unconference Day in a YouTube Playlist

• Webinars from our Critical and Creative Teaching in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis series

• Choose and watch an archived session from the CRWP series Continuity of (Our Own Professional) Learning. As you watch, please capture the moments of the chats that inspire, resonate, or, otherwise, cause you to wonder about.