Hi! I don't know about most of your schools, but in my school, this is probably the lowest point in the year. So what better time than now to... celebrate our successes!
In my case, I am really excited about the first drafts of literary analysis essays that my ESL students are producing. One of them, although her vocabulary is extremely limited, managed to turn in two or more pages on friendship, discussing at length (on paper and with me in conference) issues around making and keeping friends through thick and through thin. Another produced work which, a few grammar tweaks aside, shows that she has come light years in terms of being able to express sophisticated thinking in English. It is so cool to see these kids developing the English to express that which has been inside them all along! What successes are you all seeing? Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
