Hello! We need to start thinking about our 20 minute lesson we want to do in class for our paired teachings. I'm pretty sure we'll be together. I was thinking of reading a short passage from the text and then doing an activity with it, maybe with writing style and have the people in class write something in O'brien's style. We can talk about it in class next time probably, but just keep it in the back of your head that it's coming up!

I've finished the NCTE book. I feel like there were so many ideas being listed I got a little overwhelmed. I think my favorite activities though had to do with the writing that they suggested with the novel. I really liked the idea teaching students how to write in a certain style and using O'Brien as a jumping off point. I think because his book is really about the art of story telling, this would be good to start off the year with and start students writing with this as an example. I think students would have fun writing like Tim O'brien and investigating how he writes. Then through out the year the students would be able to learn from the masters with other novels. They would start being more proactive with their reading and really dissecting how authors write and how they write!

Hmm the truth..

The truth of storytelling I agree with you Rachel..it's more about picking it apart and being like this could have happened and it's written like it did..but it didn't haha. Umm deciding when to do that would be tricky. It reads like it's true and a type of autobiography would you tell them before or after the book? Hmmm..