“I’m worried. Can you read this?” As a measure of how little students trust themselves and their ideas, this is the question that I got today from a thoughtful student. This summer I wrote about fear in the seventh grade classroom. Yesterday I heard that fear in the room, I heard my voice rising in…
Tag: Writing process
Yoknapatawpha Lite
I’ve got two big writing projects that I am juggling with the seventh grade right now. The first involves local history research, and a colleague and I are presenting it at the state technology conference; the other is a fiction writing assignment that grew out of reading 145th Street Stories by Walter Dean Myers. Myers…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 