Second Questions

" To discover your voice, write fast and write out loud."

I selected this quote from "Starting to Write" because it reminded me so much of how I like to write and the connection between the two readings. The connection is the personality that yuor writing takes, it is yuor personality. Writing is a personal thing, it comes solely from inside you and is something that you can pick up years later and still see yourself in it. The "Read Around" piece talked about hte importance of including a students family and home life in their classroom, allowing the student to be themselves in the classroom. Allowing that connection, encouraging that connection is vital to a childs development as a functioning adult. The student needs to know that their different roles, child, brother, sister, student, etc. all fit together to make themselves, these roles should not be considered seperate but rather should play an intricate role with each other.

The second part, which i mentioned first, is that i think writing should sound like how a person is talking to you. Writing is a conversation on paper. I love the notion that one shuold turn off their monitor on the first draft, a feat that would probably kill me, or that one should turn up the velocity to out-write the censors, all fo them, teachers, classmates, colleagues, even your own voice. That is why there are spelling errors in this blog. I wanted to make it more like i was just talking with people, more like i was just referring to what i had read to someone who may be interested in English teaching stuff. It is hard, i keep wanting to slow down and check and see what i wrote and fix all the little red lines that are appearing, but i know that as long as i go fast enuogh to block the critics i will have answered teh question and followed the wuoute that i liked best from the reading. Good luck reading, sorry on the typos!!