By: Keri

Keri — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was totally not offended that you didn’t like Allyn and Bacon. I’m not in love, but for some reason, a couple of the chapters seemed to help. I actually copies the chapter about writing to discover–I can’t remember the title but it reminded me of an I-Search paper, and I gave it to my students. They really seemed to think it helped.
I’m really glad you are going to show them how to analyze a text critically. I will do that to.
I also agree about using more non-fiction writing rather than poetry or literaure. I just don’t feel like comp’s number one responsiblity is analyzing literature.
I’ll blog about the English Ed/Comp thing sometime. I just totally faltered when it came to explaining that. After the presentation, I decided that I would just cut that part from my paper.
If I were to set up a blog in my class at school, I would have to get permission from my principal and send permission slips home to parents. I would also have to prove to an extent that “strangers” wouldn’t get on and somehow lure my students to some kind of meeting. I would also want to set up a routine where kids could blog at school because not everyone has technology easily accessible at home. Those are some things I would have to consider at the secondary level. Also, we had this huge ordeal with Zenga or Xenga. Whatever it’s called. I think I saw the Richardson guy blog about this. Kids at school were getting on there and posting horrible gossip about other kids at school. So, I wonder if parents, or maybe more so, administrators, think that blogging is only Zenga.
I enjoyed reading your post. My needed to be longer. Maybe this will inspire me. By the way, I really enjoyed listening to your comments in class. Good luck on your blog researching. Can you do the writing project this summer? It would be awesome to have your technology expertise to share. You could so some research on blogging…

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By: Keri