Jennifer, I liked your idea of writing new thinking in a different color. I've been authorizing myself to write about anything and everything. I'm trying to write in my real voice rather than my "properly structured teacher voice." You're right Jennifer, I think this will serve as a model for the kids to live an intellectual life. thanks for your ideas Leslie
On 6/27/08, Palmer, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Leslie > I have been keeping just such a "book" several months now...probably since > about December. Sometimes the pages are just bulleted ideas that come to me. > Other pages have quotes from something I have been reading and then my > reaction to that quote (two column chart). I actually have a few > sketches...mostly diagrams and a few email segments from this listserv that > I particularly wanted to refer back to frequently. I put one of those funky > multi-colored pens in my purse and sometimes if I reread my journal and have > some new thinking to add, I will just write it in a different color on the > same page. > > I have found the act of writing, whether it is emails here on the list or > notes to myself in my journal, really helps me to clarify my thinking, to > make connections between ideas, to keep focus on what is important to me. > Sometimes I don't like how messy some pages look, but I have given myself > permission to be messy. The only audience is me, after all! (Though I have > shown my book to my students at the end of the year and they have seen my > write in it when something occurs to me in class. I saw it as part of > modeling the intellectual life.) :-) > > I started journaling by setting a time of day to write...but the more I did > it, the more it has become a part of my day to day routine. I take it with > me everywhere, along with my planner and that way it gets used routinely. > Good luck... > Jenn > > Jennifer Palmer > Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher > FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure. > Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge. It is > thinking > that makes what we read ours. -John Locke > > > > > > From: Leslie Wright > Sent: Fri 6/27/2008 2:57 PM > To: Special Chat List for To Understand: New Horizons in Reading > Comprehension > Subject: Re: [Understand] Understand Digest, responses to leslie and > melissa > > > Thanks for your response Bonita. > I'd love to get back together as the year goes along. I just picked up my > own blank idea book today and forced myself to write it it. I have so many > ideas but I struggle with validating myself by writing in the journal. I > need to give myself permission to write poorly, to jump from topic to > topic, > and to just "not be profound." I'm going to use this book while on > vacation > next week and record ideas on various topics. I'm resisiting the need to > organize it and table-ize it in word. I'll keep you posted. > Leslie > _______________________________________________ > Understand mailing list > [email protected] > > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org > _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
