String around my finger

I love Socratic seminar. One of my goals for my classroom is to have professional conversation amongst my students every day and formal discussion once a week. I think this is a key part of inquiry and so much fun! I like the sticky notes idea. There are common themes in each demo, reading, and strategy we learn: activate the arts, respect the writing process, activate the varying learning styles, give kids experiences to write about, and form motivation by scaffolding and imagining to create authenticity. It does begin to feel like everything echoes everything else. While at moments that makes everything seem recycled, it is refreshing that these common themes support one another. It makes best practice seem less overwhelming. So I don't forget, here are some of the ideas for my classroom I'm going to use next year, that I might forget... - Make a cheat sheet of activation strategies, idea/prewriting strategies to pull from throughout the year -Discuss with socratic circles, town meetings, discussion in character..scaffold with jazz the text, found nonfiction poems, highlighting, and journaling, also with Wilhelm like activities
-Create experiences
-Create a book wiki, a class document blog, and link to my website


So I don't forget, here are some of the ideas for my classroom I'm going to use next year, that I might forget...
- Make a cheat sheet of activation strategies, idea/prewriting strategies to pull from throughout the year
-Make