Here You Can Find a Prezi I created to explore how my writing has developed throughout my education. How my social, emotional, and intellectual intelligence's have been changed by the schooling I received and how the separation between public and private writing can help us better understand and enhance our students writing.
My Writing History
I believe that as a writing teacher it is paramount that we share our writing, even just in examples, with our students. How else can we ask them to trust us with their writing? To show students that we are always learning as professionals, making grammatical mistakes and spelling errors-that is priceless learning capitol in a classroom. And so, here is a small sampling of some kinds of other personal writing I would feel comfortable sharing with my students:
Sonnet 96
You do not look sick enough to be dying
Where are all the tubes and plastic wires?
Is it possible that the doctor is lying?
No way this man caves and expires!
He sits in this room like it’s his living room
This hospital chair might as well be lazy boy
The sun through the window leaves no trace of gloom
Oh yes Grandfather, what a clever ploy
But when I look just a little closer
I see an old ghost within those weary eyes
Right through the unshaved, silent, old poser
I see the young boy at war afraid of when he dies
Grandfather, if this is really the last time we meet
Family functions will always be incomplete
Where are all the tubes and plastic wires?
Is it possible that the doctor is lying?
No way this man caves and expires!
He sits in this room like it’s his living room
This hospital chair might as well be lazy boy
The sun through the window leaves no trace of gloom
Oh yes Grandfather, what a clever ploy
But when I look just a little closer
I see an old ghost within those weary eyes
Right through the unshaved, silent, old poser
I see the young boy at war afraid of when he dies
Grandfather, if this is really the last time we meet
Family functions will always be incomplete