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Candy Store
Candy Store Until I was six, we lived on the main street of Sand Lake, a little town nestled north of Grand Rapids, Michigan. My memories of this time are like blurry snapshots, yet several memories revolve around walking on … Continue reading
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Middle Age
What I Know About: I know about middle age, or better yet, I am learning about middle age. Maybe it can’t be known until you go through it. Middle age isn’t like being a teenager, which is easily defined by … Continue reading
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Things Karlee Will Never Know
Things Karlee Will Never Know I have tried to give my daughter Karlee everything I had as a child. Some things, though, are preserved by time, like a curvy-edged black and white photograph capturing a decade in time. I was … Continue reading
My t-shirt argument!
Writer. First, I suggest we use a short, succinct quote. I hate t-shirt sayings that are too long and difficult to read. (I know we are writers, but remember the audience and the exigence.) The saying needs to … Continue reading
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My teeming brain
Just a quick note about something I have noticed since I’ve been writing every day–I have more ideas! My brain is constantly mulling new writing ideas. I can barely remember if I shaved my legs or conditioned my hair in … Continue reading
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Annotated Bibliography #2: Rubrics
Annotated Bib. #2 Wilson, Maja. (2006). Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Wilson, a high school English teacher from Ludington, Michigan, calls rubrics the “sacred cow of writing assessment” (3). Ideally, rubrics promise teachers time saving, … Continue reading
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Marathon Writing: #3 At Indian Burial Mounds
Things I know about: I know about church, well at least the Bible and Baptist kind. As my pastor says, I was carried to church, and then dragged to church, and finally I came on my own accord. In some … Continue reading
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Marathon Writing: #2 at the Public Library
Writing Marathon #2 Like Colleen, my family did and does not value reading like I do. It is interesting to me that my parents produced two teachers. Growing up reading was seen as being lazy. There was always work to … Continue reading
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Annotated Bibliogrpahy #1: Silent Voices in the Classroom
Annotated Bibliography: Schultz, Katherine. (2009). Rethinking Classroom Participation: Listening to Silent Voices. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Schultz begins by arguing that narrowly defining students’ silence can lead to false assumptions about students’ participation in the classroom. She contends … Continue reading
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More on King
July 6, 2013 As I continue reading Stephen King’s On Writing, he discusses the dictum about “write about what you know” (153). He jokingly says that that advice sounds good unless you are writing about killing your wife and putting her in … Continue reading
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