Different strageries for writing-Notebook know-how September 1, 2008

As I am reading through the assigned readings, I am very interested in the idea of writing about your name. If my teacher had me write about my name, I could have wrote a whole book. I love my name. I love everything about it. I really find it interesting how many people say, “oh your name is so beautiful” or “that’s a really neat name I can remember that”, but you would be surprised how many people forget my name. My parents always thought that Savannah, GA was beautiful, so hence the creation of my name. My middle name was past down from my grandmother to my mom. The only strategy that I did not relate to was making a list of things to write about. I do understand that this helps a good number of students collect their ideas and thus making writing easier. But I was that child that making list, bubble maps, or Venn diagrams did not work for. I enjoy to just jumping in and writing and have the thoughts flow out of me. The main problem with that is that I tend to jump around to different topics. My brother is someone that needs a list. He needs to be able to cross something of a list in order to feel like he is on the right track and making progress. I found this section of the book very helpful as far as motivating your students to write.

p.s. Did you catch the sunset tonight. A beautiful blend of purple and pink with the outline of the mountains. Just in case you did not, here is a picture from my porch.

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