Readings

Text: //Write Beside Them//, Penny Kittle Each evening after class, you are asked to post your reflection under your name in 'class dicussion' on the following chapters. Please respond to 2 people that have also posted their responses (these will be assigned daily in class before you leave). Although you may read ahead, please only post on the evenings requested. The questions below you may use in your response or your may use another aspect of the chapter that was particularly striking to you. Enjoy!

Before you arrive on Monday, please create a post introducing yourself to the class :) Monday: Chapters 1 and 2:
 * How will students 'embrace (their) own literacy; owning what (they) write, reading what (they) want' in your class? How can you encourage literacy in your class? Can you do this with prescribed reading?
 * As the most important writer in the room, how do you feel about modeling writing to your students? What are the challenges?

Tuesday: Chapters 3 and 4.
 * How can you bring authority to the writing in your classroom? Activities? Readings? Research?
 * Memories, photographs, lists, collage, quick writes; the list goes on. How do you see yourself using the Writer's Notebook in your life? In your classroom? Challenges?

Wednesday: Chapters 5 and 6:
 * Quick Writes: what quick writes can you suggest for various subject areas? What are the challenges that may arise in quick writes? What is the most useful form of quick write for your personal writing?
 * Reading and thinking like a writer sits on the premise of locating text that models the type of writing you set as a goal. What type of author do you emulate? Admire? Why? How will this serve you in your own personal writing?

Thursday: Chapter 7 and 10:
 * Mapping out your plan in writing helps to create a sense of ownership and connection to the writing. What types of graphic organizers do you find useful in your writing? In your classroom?
 * Multigenre pieces rest on the connection and experiences of the writer. How can you connect with a multigenre piece? Can you think of ways, in your subject area, to get your students to connect and produce a multigenre piece? What are the possibilities?