Sent two responses this a.m. Which haven't come up yet on my computer and wondering why. Did I do something wrong in sending it? Just in case it's being held up for some reason, I'm volunteering to facilitate - though very open to giving that wonderful position to anyone else who'd like to do it.
Second: I set out a draft/brainstorm plan which is open to discussion. I'm going to recopy it here. Here are a couple of ideas. Welcome your feedback and I can revise! 1. When to start. Thinking the last weekend of January. Gives us enough time to order and read a chapter or two??? Thinking weekends might be a good time to begin each new section discussion as our weeks are pretty filled with working - right??? 2. Pacing. Have to get my book out to see how it is divided but probably a chapter a week or so??? That's roughly. Or is that too fast a pace? 3. I'd be glad to start each week's discussion with my own connections and/or questions. And everyone can just join in. Or we can take turns with who wants to take the lead for different chapters. (I would love that!) let me know if you'd like to do this and we can set up a schedule. 4. My guess is that we'll be using the STRATEGIES as we read to understand. And also think about how using the ideas with kids will tap the strategies. 5. Speaking of strategies, I suggest we might begin by each of us tapping our own SCHEMA of poetry. Why not start by remembering our own early and schooling experience of poetry. The next chapter of that could be our own experiences of poetry since our schooling - has it been the same or different? Between these two chunks of schema, we will have reflected on our experiences and assumptions about poetry as we explore Georgia's book. 6. It would be great if someone would be "the keeper of..." poems mentioned or recommended by Georgia or any of us that we might want to use in our classrooms. (just gathering them as they come up naturally and keep as a simple list in a folder that we can put on the resources page of this list at the end of our discussion?) PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK ON ANY OF THIS. IT'S JUST A BRAINSTORM TO BEGIN OUR PLANNING. Sally On 12/30/11 5:02 AM, "Palmer, Jennifer" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am totally in favor! Who would like to facilitate the discussion? I am > finishing and defending my dissertation in the next few months, or I would > offer to do it myself... > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
