11 ways of looking at writing workshop

Goldberg took me
to the edge of the
clouds of happiness

The job never ends:
reading a great pleasure

Look to my soul;
found a hidden treasure.

Inmersed in words
inmersed in story

Couraged to teach,
encouraged to live

The classroom is silent
memories are minded

Friends come, friends go
they fly like birds

Pens are busy
memories come alive

profesores looked at us,
as we were predators,
hungry to learn.

Summer is ending,
the workshop is ending
tears are at the edge of our eyes

The workshop is over
knowledge is passed around.

Old Friend from far away

I highly recommend this book. The moment I started reading goldberg's book, I started writing my own memoir. Goldberg guided me to follow a new path to a deeper understanding of my own mind. She made me write.

Thank you! Christy, for introducing me Goldberg.

six ways of looking at Living

In a house lined
with books, reading
precedes living.
You have to trace the the words
to the door.

A song, a tango, carries its life
through the streets, past the rude
dways and halflit allegs, bringing joy.

Surrounded by family laughing, fighting
eyes full with gratitude to be surrounded
by life and family.

For 80 years he travel the railway of life.
Always, his final destination was the great
door of which there is only an entrance through
the scenary was ideal at times, meals were filling
and the company rich-his journey was still about
where the train stooped-not where it traveled.

The water shoots up to the sky
then falls back down hard on my dancing shoes.
Our feet splash a rythm in the puddles.
we breath in the night air and feel alive.

life,life wonderful life
live forever.

five things that I would like to implement into my classrrom.

1- Writing poems. Christy and Marti inspired me to write poems.I could not believe what powerful I felt after I wrote my I am from poem. This is something that I am looking forward.I think my students will enjoy it.

2- I like Tara's workshop about publishing. Create a mock newspaper that has articles, advertisements and colummns that can be publish in the bulletin boards.

3- I am going to take Jill's T note in order to let my students to navigate and think about the typical and unusual.

4- Identify "deadwood" and cut it from a sentence.This is fro Jill's workshop. excellent.

5- It is my opinion that all of us brought something new in this class, so I realy appreciated for all your contribution. This list is a few things that I am mentioning here, but I am willing to take at least 3 or 4 things from each of you. Thank all.

Writer's Notebook

What is a Writer's Notebooks? It is a place to keeep all our students special thoughts.

Writer's Notebooks Can also be used:

- To hold thinking
- To organize
- To hold handout
- To asses growth in students writing fluency
- For drafting.

Why we use the Writer's Notebooks:

To generate texts, find ideas, and review grammar.
Students personalize their notebooks in order to make them their own.

Using portfolios

I use portfolios to keep all my students work. In my opinion portfolios are very importan. It help me in organizing my curriculum for the next year. It is my best tool to show parents what their children are learning. Years ago I used to collect all my students work. I did not choose just the best. But I always end it up with a lot of junk. Now I found out that taking pictures of what my students have done in classes are the best, because I can take them everywhere and is not heavy.In writng, I choose some of the best writing for each student and collect them in their portfolios.I learned today that students piece of writing can be improve by letting our students go back and revised them by themselves.

10 more importants things about conferencing

1- Students can conduct surveys to learn how their peers go about writing.
2- Peer response group.
3- Teachers can show their strategies to their students.
4- Record.
5- Earlier conferences are helpful.
6- From a simple conversation to a more developed conversation.
7- repair the problem of the writer.
8- Exposed to a different level of writing.
9- teachers are coaches.
10-Students gain this sort of awarenes of the process of writing, so they can see what they do when they write.