Blogging with Summer Institute 2008

Good morning…. Remember our week ends on a Thursday with a celebration. We made it! How does it feel?
Shout out to my mom. She turned 90 this morning!
Writing into the Day:  The History of My Name
Reading: “My Name” from the House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros to begin
Digital Documenter Paulette

Shared with Flock – [...]

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Good morning. Week One is almost over. Can you believe that?
Writing into the Day with Mary…Focus Our Writing Lives
Write about a bad writing memory?
Start freewriting using “I remember…” as your prompt.
Digital Documenter Mary:

Log: Barbara
The Summer 08 Tour – The Amazing Race to the Writing Pieces
Itinerary for July 8, 2008
8:30 am [...]

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Writing into the Day
Revisiting Tom’s Workshop: The Professional Piece
What is an episode from your teaching life? Why share out?
A life in teaching is a stitched-together affair, a crazy quilt of odd pieces and scrounged materials, equal parts invention and imposition.
To make a life in teaching is largely to find your [...]

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Monday, July 7, 2008
Day One SI’08
Writing into the day:
Focused Free Write: SI’08 begins…
1. Keep your hand moving. Don’t reread.
2.Don’t cross out. No editing yet.
3. Don’t stop to correct spelling, grammar etc. Just let your wild mind run free.
3. Feel free to switch topics in midstream, just keep your pens [...]

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After waiting out the now customary 8:00-8:15 Ulster BOCES lockout,

the HVWP Summer Institute Fellows of ‘08, came together for an orientation that hints at great things to come.
The day started traditionally, coffee was percolated, bagels gnoshed, and [...]

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