Discussion of Awakening Heart by Georgia Heard starts today. Everyone is welcome. We¹ll post a tentative schedule but feel free to chime in any time. If you want to go back to a previous chapter fine! We¹ll keep the subject line ³Awakening Heart² so that people who don¹t want to follow the discussion can simply delete. If you want to add a specific chapter to show which you are referring to we can try that BUT please leave the ³AH² at the beginning of the subject line. For example: Awakening Heart: Chapter 1. It is not necessary to add a specific chapter. The book is pretty short and I¹m sure we¹ll all ³get² what you are talking about. As you respond, delete all previous comments except the last one that you are responding to. (Once you¹ve hit reply, it is easy to delete the unneeded parts of the ongoing conversation.) We don¹t want to gummy up the list and server by having extra long strings of accumulating comments! Feel free to tap your ³reading strategies² as you reply. You might ask questions. Powerful images may arise in your mind. You may want to make connections to practices in your own classroom, to other texts, to the world. You may want to check out an inference and see how others are interpreting something. Let¹s just have a good rich conversation. Feel free to make suggestions. We who are leading the conversation are mainly here to just start us off on each chapter. But we will definitely join in with the rest of you as the conversation grows. Do feel free to email us privately if you have questions or suggestions that the whole list may not need to see. We¹ll begin today with the Introduction and Chapter 1. Sally will send some thoughts and a few questions in an email to follow this. They are just ideas, not questions or trains of-thought you need to follow. Think you will love this book!! Sally Thomas Lisa Ward Tentative timeline. We have hurried it a bit as there is an opportunity at the end of the month to join a session with Georgia Heard. Intro and Chapter 1: Saturday, January 28th. Chapter 2: Friday, February 3rd Chapter 3: Friday, February 10 Chapter 4: Friday February 17 Chapter 5: and afterward: Friday February 24.
Our sense is that possibly, since this is a short and very engaging read, we may want to quicken this schedule. We¹ll check with you the second week and see what you all think. It¹s been suggested from previous book studies that participants do not like to drag it out too long because the enthusiasm wanes. So let¹s just see how it goes. _______________________________________________ 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
