June 2008
2 posts
“A poetry of place is a poetry which values locales, which sees and lets the...”
– Windfall: Poetry of Place
If we are tilting the curriculum toward place-based educaation, would’t we spend some time reading and writing poetry that seeks to value locales?
Favorite Summer Places
May 2008
4 posts
Where's the balance between expressing your own...
Freewrite: What’s on your mind? Freewrite for 10 or 15 minutes (front of a page of paper) about your weekend—or anything else—on paper first. You might want to use one of your 10 self / 10 world questions. Or find a question that someone is asking on Youth Twitter, and freewrite about that. (Put a question mark in the search box and enter to find questions.) On the other side of your paper,...
Sentence Starters: Something I've been interested...
newjournalism2012: Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been {something specific}. I remember {someone you know} talking about it {when?}, but {explain why you didn’t learn more at that time}. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that many people feel that {what do some people say about this issue?}. From what I have heard, {what do you know about this...
Freewrite/ Work on last weeks or do a new on this week. What’s on your mind? Freewrite abour your weekend—or anything else—on paper first, then on tumblr/text Link to your post on Youth Twitter. Practice: Find something you like in Space Issue #2 or in Youth Twitter. (Check out Street Dreamz.) Write a response in your tumblr/text. Copy Sentence Starters and paste them into a text box on your...
Freewrite What’s on your mind? Freewrite abour your weekend—or anything else—on paper first, then on tumblr/text Link to your post on Youth Twitter. Practice: Find something you like in Space Issue #2 or in Youth Twitter. (Check out Street Dreamz.) Write a response in your tumblr/text. Copy Sentence Starters and paste them into a text box on your tumblr. Your Goal today:...
April 2008
5 posts
Finding Space on Youth Twitter
newjournalism2013: Brainstarter: Write abour your break on paper first, then on tumblr/text Link to your post on Youth Twitter. Practice: Find something you like in Space Issue #2 Copy Sentence Starters (below) and paste them into a text box on your tumblr. Your Goal today: Complete post with details and thought. Link to a tweet on Youth twitter Become a creator who replies to others.
Sentence Starters for Space, Issue #2
Copy these sentences, and replace anything that is in {these brackets} with your own details and ideas. I found a {poem/story/essay/photograph/animation/song/video…} in Space, Issue #2 by {Name of Creator+link to blog}. I {past tense verb showing emotion} “{Exact Title+link from Space},” because… One {sentence/part} that stands out for me is: “{Quote from the work.}” I think this is...
Map of Memory Chain + Where I'm From = Hypertext... →
Use this guide to do a self-assessment. I will be using it to give you a grade. Check to see what you’ve finished so far, and what else you need to do now.
Where I'm From →
There are important links and resources for this assignment here.
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March 2008
6 posts
Where I'm From →
This is one of your assignments for this week.
Weekend checkin with 5 guys in Room 204.
(2:53) When the Internet went down, we took a...
Sixth graders after playing Darfur Is Dying
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Dereck at EBAFF, Bronx, NY 03: 35:57 pm on March 6, 2008 | # |
I think that the boys are the fastest too. The sisters die because they are slow. Darfur Is Dying
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Seun at EBAFF, Bronx, NY 03: 28:24 pm on March 6, 2008 | # |
I noticed that you can’t play with the father, Rahman, on Darfur Is Dying because they kill him if he gets caught.
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Daquan at EBAFF, Bronx, NY 03: 25:09 pm on March 6, 2008 | # |
If you play Darfur Is Dying, sometimes it will be fun.
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Daquan at EBAFF, Bronx, NY 03: 23:29 pm on March 6, 2008 | # |
I noticed that Mahdi always gets the water, and sometimes he runs under the army cars with guns. Darfur Is Dying
Watchpaulallison: These guys are teaching me how to learn with games and audio — sometimes at the same time.
“The attacks by the janjaweed, the fearsome Arab militias that came three weeks...”
– Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur - New York Times This is a shocking description, and as I read it I wondered if the USA troops in Iraq, working with local warlords and mercenary armies along with American air power could be described in much the same way.
February 2008
1 post
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