Cultural Practices of Writing II

Writing Processes as Schooling Explore writing within school Explore writing/reading related to your cultural artifact Understand how individuals write Extending writing through peer review Explore writing processes as situated within schooling. Or Explore writing/reading process as related to your own cultural artifact Understand and analyze how individuals write. Extending writing processes through peer review strategies.

Overview Goals Objectives Instructions Reflections Adaptations Goals (linked to general learning goals of PCW/FYW/ULL) Objectives (SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) Instructions Reflections Adaptations

Day 1 Schooling

Day 1 Objectives: Frontloading Explore writing processes as situated within schooling View Mr. Erickson’s writing process online: http://philerickson.weebly.com/on-writing.html Read “Comic life of writing in school” Draw a comic that shows how you write a school paper Instructions: View Mr. Erickson’s writing process online: http://philerickson.weebly.com/on-writing.html Give students the handout “Comic life of writing in school” and ask them to draw a comic that shows how they write a school paper from start to finish.

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within schooling Share your comic with at least 5 students Write at least 5 words that come to mind to describe this writing process No repeats! Write these words on the back of the comic Instructions: Stand and share your comic with at least 5 students. Each student must write at least 5 words that come to mind to describe this writing process. No repeats! Write these words on the back of the comic.

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within schooling Find 4-5 students who share similar experiences in school assigned writing Choose one person’s comic to dramatize and create a skit Instructions: Find 4-5 students who share similar experiences in their school assigned writing processes. Create a skit in which you choose one person’s comic to dramatize. Rules: One person opens the skit with an introduction to the skit’s title and significance; everyone has a speaking line; include a song or other media used to facilitate the writing process.

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within schooling Rules: open the skit with an introduction to the title and significance of the skit everyone speak one line include a song or other media used to facilitate writing

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within schooling Reflection: What do these skits and comics illustrate about the influence of schooling on writing? What commonalities and differences do we find between our experiences with writing in schools? Reflection: What do these skits and comics illustrate about the influence of schooling on our writing processes? What commonalities and differences do we notice between our experiences with writing in schools?

Day 1 Objectives: Evaluating Explore writing processes as situated within schooling Freewrite for 5 minutes: How is writing taught in particular schools and areas How does this affect the writer? Instructions: Freewrite for 5 minutes: How does writing come to be taught in particular schools in particular countries or areas and with what effects on the writer?

Day 1 Cultural Artifact

Day 1 Objectives: Frontloading Explore writing processes as situated within inferences about your cultural artifact Write a haiku, riddle,(or create a sketch) about your cultural artifact Guess the instructor's sketch of their artifact Sample artifact sketch that asks for many inferences to be made: The silver bottle has black characters on it that few can read, ᎦᎷᏗ ᎠᎹ, let alone understand. Beads of sweat texture the outside. The lid opens to allow contents to be dispensed. Instructions: Write a haiku, riddle, or a sketchy description of your cultural artifact. Bring a cultural artifact that you’ve sketched. Asks students to guess what it is before revealing it

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within inferences about your cultural artifact After instructor reveals artifact, write at least 3 questions that come to mind about it Write these words on the board Instructions: Reveal your cultural artifact. Each student must write at least 3 questions that come to mind that they want to know more about. Write these words on the board.

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within inferences about your cultural artifact Review how instructor revises their sketch based on what you wanted to know Instructions: Using their questions to guide you, explain how their inferencing as readers, serves them well as peer reviewers of your writing. Model for them how you would revise your sketch in light of what they want to know.

Day 1 Objectives: Constructing Explore writing processes as situated within inferences about your cultural artifact Reflection: How does this process of inferencing as readers and asking questions help develop your writing? What can we presume readers know about our artifacts? What do we think the artifact is? How does it related to culture? Reflection: How does this process of inferencing as readers and asking questions of writers help you develop your writing? What can we presume readers know about our cultural artifacts? What do we think and artifact is? How does it related to culture?

Day 1 Objectives: Evaluating Explore writing processes as situated within inferences about your cultural artifact Freewrite for 5 minutes: Choose any item you have on your person right now What makes it important to you? Describe it without naming the object Exchange your freewrites What do you have to revise to help him/her correctly guess it? Instructions: Freewrite for 5 minutes: Choose any item you have on your person right now. What makes it important to you? Describe it to someone who cannot see it. You want them to be able to guess what it is without actually naming it. Exchange your freewrites with someone across the room and see if your peer guesses correctly. What do you have to revise to help him/her correctly guess it?

Day 1: Reflections

Day 1: Adaptations

Day 2

Day 2 Objectives: Frontloading Understand and analyze how individuals write Take out your notebooks and complete the following prompts: I write when… I write to… I write for… I write because… Two more sentences of your choice Instructions: Warm-up writing prompt: Take our your notebooks and complete the following prompts: I write when… I write to… I write for… I write because… Two more sentences of your choice…

Day 2 Objectives: Frontloading Understand and analyze how individuals write Reflection: Stand and share these with each other What two prompts surprised you and why? Reflection: Let’s stand and walk the room and share these with each other. What two sentences surprised you and why?

Day 2 Objectives: Constructing Understand and analyze how individuals write Reflect on the last activity and raise your hands if you on your stance You write only when you have to You write to please an audience You write for reasons of your own You write because you’ve got something to say Instructions: Put four Likert scales on the board with “strongly agree” as 1 and “strongly disagree” as 5. Ask students to reflect on the last activity and raise their hands if they strongly agree, etc. You write when you have to not when you want to You write to please an audience You write for reasons of your own You write because you’ve got something to say that has to be said

Day 2 Objectives: Constructing Understand and analyze how individuals write Questions: Overall, what trends to you notice across your experiences? To what factors do you attribute your writing? What motivates your writing? To what extend would you say that schooling or school has shaped your writing practices? Questions: Overall, what trends to you notice here across your experiences? To what factors do you attribute your writing practices? What most motivates your writing? To what extend would you say that schooling or school has shaped your writing practices?

Day 2 Objectives: Extending Understand and analyze how individuals write Write in a stream of consciousness for 3 minutes. If you’ve got nothing, write “nothing” until something comes Prompt: My writing process is like… Instructions: Generate metaphors for writing. Based on the above activity, write in a stream of consciousness for 3 minutes. If you’ve got nothing, write “nothing” until something comes. Prompt: My writing process is like…

Day 2 Objectives: Extending Understand and analyze how individuals write You’ll see in the reading from Nancy Sommers that she uses many metaphors for writing. How do student writers’ metaphors differ from experienced writers?

Day 2 Objectives: Extending Understand and analyze how individuals write For homework: Read Sommers and do a side-by-side journal with student writers on one side, experienced writers on the other As you read, write in the margins What are the most important things when writing? What events did you find interesting? What seem to be the key metaphors for each process? How does this experience relate to your own writing? Bring your annotated text to class For homework: You’ll see in the reading from Nancy Sommers that she uses many metaphors for writing. Pay attention to these. How do student writers’ metaphors differ from experienced writers? Read Sommers and do a side-by-side journal: Student writers on one side, Experienced writers on the other. As you read, write in the margins of the reader using sticky notes or just in pen. What are the most important things the writer seems to do when writing? What events or insights did you find most interesting? What seem to be the key metaphors for each writing process? How does or doesn’t this experience relate to your own writing process? Bring only your annotated text to class.

Day 2: Reflections

Day 2: Adaptations

Day 3

Day 3 Objectives: Frontloading Understand and analyze how individuals write Take out your journals Break into 5 groups Discuss important ideas of your 2 pages How do these mesh with your experiences as writers? Reflection: What is a draft? When really does a writing process start? Instructions: Take our your journals. Break into 5 groups, each assigned 2 pages. Pull and discuss the most important ideas of your 2 pages. How do these mesh with your experiences as writers? Reflection: What is a draft? When really does a writing process start?

Day 3 Objectives: Constructing Understand and analyze how individuals write Go to the board and write your name along the continuum Form small groups of people around you and discuss: Why did you put yourself there? What works well in your writing process? What might you change? Why? What types of inferencing strategies do you use in yours and others’ writing? Instructions: Instructor: Draw a continuum labeled “student writer”s and “experienced writer”s on the board (based on Sommers’ reading). Go to the board and write your name somewhere along the continuum. Form small groups of people around you on the continuum and discuss why you put yourself there. What works well in your writing process? What might you change? Why? What types of inferencing strategies do you use to read your writing? Others’ writing?

Day 3 Objectives: Constructing Understand and analyze how individuals write Reflection: What would you have to do as a writer to become an experienced writer? What would a reader have to do to help you become an experienced writer? Reflection: What would you have to do as a writer to become like the experienced writers? What would a reader have to do to help you move on to become an experienced writer?

Day 3 Objectives: Extending Understand and analyze how individuals write Write in a stream of consciousness for 3 minutes: Imagine you are writing a paper: Where are you? What do you have in front of you? What does the place sound like? Smell like? Feel like? Complete this sentence: “After starting my paper this way, I will … over the next few days.” Instructions: Write in a stream of consciousness for 3 minutes: Imagine you’ve just sat down to write a paper assignment: where are you, what do you have in front of you? What does the place sound like? Smell like? Feel like? Paint a picture of your writing process by sitting us inside of your head/at your desk as you first sit to write. Then complete this sentence: “after starting my paper this way, I will … over the next few days.”

Day 3 Objectives: Extending Understand and analyze how individuals write Share these with a partner Read something you loved from your peer’s writing Why did you like it as a reader? Reflection: Share these with a partner. Partners: read something you loved from your peer’s writing. Why did you like it as a reader? Take away: Knowing your writing process helps you become a better writer who can anticipate your needs, your reader’s responses, and build upon your strengths

Day 3: Reflections

Day 3: Adaptations

Day 4

Day 4 Objectives: Frontloading Extending writing process through peer review strategies How many of you have done peer reviews for other students writing? How many have had teachers respond to your writing? Instructions: Quick show of hands: how many of you have done peer reviews for other students writing? Quick show of hands: and how many have had teachers respond to your writing? (If this shows that students have had very little opportunity to respond to others or have their writing responded to, move to third activity.)

Day 4 Objectives: Frontloading Extending writing process through peer review strategies List the kinds of responses you’ve received or would like to receive from readers that you find most helpful Collect these on the board Instructions: List the types and kinds of responses (positive and negative) you’ve received or would like to receive from readers of your writing that you find most helpful. Collect these on the board.

Day 4 Objectives: Frontloading Extending writing process through peer review strategies Which of these responses influence your writing process the most? Which of these responses would hurt you the most? Instructions: Collect students’ examples for these verbally and share with the rest of the class. As they report out, listen and take notes on all the the responses they like/need. Which of these responses influence their writing process the most? Which of these responses would hurt them the most?

Day 4 Objectives: Constructing Extending writing process through peer review strategies Write an anonymous a set of instructions to your peer’s or a letter to your peer’s in which you tell them what kinds of response they might want to their writing Instructions: Remind students of the discussion they had about what types of responses from readers would help them move into becoming an experienced writer. Ask students to write an anonymous a set of instructions to their peer’s or a letter to their peer’s in which they tell them what types and kinds of response they might want to their writing (either in general or specifically in relation to a piece of writing).

Day 4 Objectives: Constructing Extending writing process through peer review strategies Read aloud the response you got As these are being read aloud: Take notes on what types/kinds of instructions, guidelines, and tips you would create from these Instructions (continued): Collect their answers and making sure that these are anonymous, hand them back out to students. Ask each student to read aloud the response they got. Instructions to students as these are being read aloud: Take notes on what types/kinds of instructions, guidelines, and tips they would create from these.

Day 4 Objectives: Extending Extending writing process through peer review strategies In groups of 4, compile your findings from the last activity into a list of instructions What should every one of us keep in mind as we’re responding to each other’s writing? How should we respond to each other’s writing? To what extent and when should we pay attention to each other’s grammar? What should we value as we respond to each other’s writing? Instructions: Group students into small groups of 4. As a group collectively compile your findings from the last activity into a list of instructions, recommendations, or tips for peer reviewers. What should every one of us keep in mind as we’re responding to each other’s writing? How should we respond to each other’s writing? To what extent and when should we pay attention to each other’s grammar? What should we value as we respond to each other’s writing?

Day 4 Objectives: Extending Extending writing process through peer review strategies Reflection: What connections do you see between your writing process and a reader’s response to your writing? What kinds of responses help us develop as writers? How does the culture of the classroom impact your writing? Instructions (continued): Collect the answers from students, selectively read these aloud, and use these to guide your instructions for peer reviews. Reflection: What connections do you see between your writing process and a reader’s response to your writing? What kinds of responses help us develop as writers? How does the culture of the classroom impact your writing?

Day 4: Reflections

Day 4: Adaptations