Of all of these chapters, the one newest to me is "snap shot" and "thought shots."
Ask questions that yield leads.
Notice the leads that give you a hungry feeling to write
Add details. Wear things, act things, ask things/
Make others want to run to the window and look.
Snap shots and thought shots. Learn to write them separately and then choose when to blend them together.
Create a scene. I understand this but find it hard to summarize.
Explode a moment. See writing as a series of mountains. Find the place in the mountains you want to dwell. Write from there. Shrink a century. Charlotte's Web
and early summer/
Do you see how you can create mini-lessons that you can bring into the classroom as a sub? Perhaps actual artifacts (a laminated picture of a camera, a thoughtshot, a stick of dynamite)?
ReplyDeleteThis way your students have something physical to represent a more abstract concept and, perhaps more important, vocabulary with which to talk about their writing.
I hope the lesson planning idea yesterday in class helped you see another way to use these ideas in a practical way. Of course, these ideas help with our own personal writing also.
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