I teach AP English Lang and Writing Lab for partially proficient writers at Cherokee Trail High School. I am curious about how technology and literacy are interconnected.
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This simple picture of an egg and the title "Coming to Life" makes me think of Quindlens' challenge to all of us to break free the inner writer within us all. I wonder what stories do we have locked inside our shells that the world needs to hear?
Quote from Story: "She wrote it for the same reason the kids who called themselves Freedom Writers wrote in those composition books: to make sense of themselves."
Writing is a good release, when you have no one else.
http://academics.utep.edu/Portals/860/diary.jpg Quote from story: The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. And the physical isolation they and other arms-length cyber-advances create makes talking to yourself more important than ever. That's also what writing is: not just a legacy, but therapy.
I picked this image because the flying book represents freedom and power of words. I was drawn to the quote, "Words on paper confer a kind of immortality" in write for Your Life.
http://www.worldwork.biz/legacy/www/images/comp_images/acceptance.jpg I chose this particular image to stand for acceptance and the open door that writing and expressing oneself provides. I was moved by the positiveness.
I chose this picture of two African boys because I think of Africa as being one of the places where people who are truly disenfranchised live. There are disenfranchised people everywhere, of course, but the point of Quindlen's commentary is that writing is something that can potentially give the powerless power. With the internet, this might be possible. It has the chance to make people happier.
This picture of a notebook sitting invitingly open, pen at the ready, came up when I searched "cathartic" and "writing", two words that came to mind after reading the "Write for Life" article. I connected with the author's emphasis that people NEED to write. Given the opportunity to safely open up to the non-judgmental paper is such a release. Life is so busy that people forget the siren call of paper.
Words on paper confer a kind of immortality. Wouldn't all of us love to have a journal, a memoir, a letter, from those we have loved and lost? Shouldn't all of us leave a bit of that behind? It makes me think of my life and the memories that i have created. We all love to have tangible reminders.
How is it, at a time when clarity and strength go begging, that we have moved so far from everyday prose? Social critics might trace this back to the demise of letter writing. The details of housekeeping and child rearing, the rigors of war and work, advice to friends and family: none was slated for publication. They were communications that gave shape to life by describing it for others.
It is interesting how the debate about literacy is always about whether kids can write like Dickens or Shakespeare or REAL Historians. This is a good reminder of our past. During the 17th century, I read, the average gentleman died with as much info as there is in one edition of the NY Times. We act as if kids need to hurry faster to learn EVERYTHING as if that were possible.
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ReplyDeleteThis simple picture of an egg and the title "Coming to Life" makes me think of Quindlens' challenge to all of us to break free the inner writer within us all. I wonder what stories do we have locked inside our shells that the world needs to hear?
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ReplyDeleteThis image of tea-stained letters is a reminder of how all types of writing can document a life and leave a lasting legacy.
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ReplyDeleteI selected this picture to represent the idea of journal writing. A journal is a place to record your deepest fears and wildest dreams.
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"She wrote it for the same reason the kids who called themselves Freedom Writers wrote in those composition books: to make sense of themselves."
Writing is a good release, when you have no one else.
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ReplyDeleteThis is requiring a lot of hard work.
http://academics.utep.edu/Portals/860/diary.jpg
ReplyDeleteQuote from story: The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. And the physical isolation they and other arms-length cyber-advances create makes talking to yourself more important than ever. That's also what writing is: not just a legacy, but therapy.
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ReplyDeleteI picked this image because the flying book represents freedom and power of words. I was drawn to the quote, "Words on paper confer a kind of immortality" in write for Your Life.
http://www.worldwork.biz/legacy/www/images/comp_images/acceptance.jpg
ReplyDeleteI chose this particular image to stand for acceptance and the open door that writing and expressing oneself provides. I was moved by the positiveness.
Making sense of yourself and your surroundings takes deep thinking.
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I chose this picture of two African boys because I think of Africa as being one of the places where people who are truly disenfranchised live. There are disenfranchised people everywhere, of course, but the point of Quindlen's commentary is that writing is something that can potentially give the powerless power. With the internet, this might be possible. It has the chance to make people happier.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture of a notebook sitting invitingly open, pen at the ready, came up when I searched "cathartic" and "writing", two words that came to mind after reading the "Write for Life" article. I connected with the author's emphasis that people NEED to write. Given the opportunity to safely open up to the non-judgmental paper is such a release. Life is so busy that people forget the siren call of paper.
Words on paper confer a kind of immortality. Wouldn't all of us love to have a journal, a memoir, a letter, from those we have loved and lost? Shouldn't all of us leave a bit of that behind?
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think of my life and the memories that i have created. We all love to have tangible reminders.
How is it, at a time when clarity and strength go begging, that we have moved so far from everyday prose? Social critics might trace this back to the demise of letter writing. The details of housekeeping and child rearing, the rigors of war and work, advice to friends and family: none was slated for publication. They were communications that gave shape to life by describing it for others.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how the debate about literacy is always about whether kids can write like Dickens or Shakespeare or REAL Historians. This is a good reminder of our past. During the 17th century, I read, the average gentleman died with as much info as there is in one edition of the NY Times. We act as if kids need to hurry faster to learn EVERYTHING as if that were possible.