Teaching Experiment

I’m trying something new with my students…a blog. I’m not sure how this will play out. The idea is simple, but I’ve learned that a simple idea can turn into something complex, complicated, and convoluted quite quickly. (How much alliteration can I slip in here?)

The plan is that my students will respond to prompts that I post on the blog as they read books, articles, poems, and epics.

Our new blog is entitled We Read, Think, and Write (http://ireadthinkwrite.wordpress.com/).

I’ll let you know how this works.

“to soften or reshape it”

You know when you are reading a delicious novel and you say, “YES! that’s exactly how I feel!”? This is one of those moments:

“With all her heart, she wished she could talk to her sister about this, that she could hand her pain off to someone else who might find the words to soften or reshape it” (147).

Winter Garden