July 9, 2007
With July 4th exploding in the middle of the week, PLWP started the PLWP SI on July 9th. Really this is not the start. These SI fellows have been meeting for three Saturdays before their regular teaching assignments were completed. They met in April, May, and June. The usual 4 day week has been extended to include a half day on Friday. Boy these teachers are committed. At the moment they are in the lab reading and responding to National Writing Project E-anthology pieces. It is very quiet for having 22 teachers in the same room. I just wanted to update the writing community that sometimes reads this blog. We had a great demonstration by 5th grade teacher Ann. It was titled Writing In All the Content Areas. She did a great job. Her demo PowerPoint is posted on PLWP’s closed web board which is only working part time today. Because Writing Matters is one of the books being used in this institute. Tom Romano’s Writing With Passion is another book being used. Participants first assignment is to write an In the Trenches piece. There are a number of good pieces posted on NWP E-anthology. Good job all you writers out there. As the TL, my job is to take pictures of what is going on each day. I will then help put together the anthology for the PLWP site. I have great fun reading all the work of the SI fellows. Mary
