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Activities You Experienced During the March, 2011 Write to Learn Conference

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**__ 50 Pictures that Changed the World Video Slide show __**

__ Possible Writing Prompts: __

Where do you see laughter, love and/or loss?

Write about one image that stands out to you personally.

Write about some or all images collectively.


 * __ Create Art to Write About: __**



**__ Picturing Writing Model __**

Using the model from [|Picturing Writing], we created landscapes focusing in on the time of day (morning, noon, night). Please click [|here] to view a time line I created using Timetoast. This time line showcases photographs rather than artwork.

Although our artwork was on small 4 1/2 x 6in paper, I recommend 6in x 6in card stock. Reams of 350 sheets areon the Picturing Writing website for $12.



Picturing Writing uses a crayon resist technique (drawing with crayon then painting with watercolor) which I recommend, but any artwork can be used as a prompt.

We used a graphic organizer to break apart the parts of the picture. We listed items we saw in the artwork (ground, sky, sun). Then we described each of those items in the graphic organizer. We were also encouraged to use personification, metaphor and simile.

We shared our masterpieces and figurative language through an open mic session.

Here are samples from our time together at Write-to-Learn:





**__ Write About Existing Artwork: Today is Non-objective __** We then looked at Joan Mitchell's //Ici//. This was an extended looking and creative response activity I participated in through a workshop by the [|St. Louis Art Museum] given by Mike Murawski at the Missouri Art Education Association. Please find the steps we took together attached.

We had a gallery walk to view each others work.



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[|Artful Thinking] is a program that was developed by [|Harvard Project Zero]. The program focuses on experiencing and appreciating art, rather than making art. It has two broad goals: (1) To help teachers create rich connections between works of art and curricular topics; and (2) to help teachers use art as a force for developing students’ thinking dispositions. Below is the link to Artful Thinking Routines. I encourage you to explore the site as it has many thinking strategies.

This photo shows the anchor chart for student's story starters using the Thinking Routine //Beginning, Middle, End.//

[|Artful Thinking Routines]

The word //routine//, for me, is interchangable in this instance with the more common word //strategy//. I think they are called routines so the strategies, in fact, become a routine way of documenting student thinking.

Below is the video of Writing Camp samples I showed you:)

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Please find the bookmark document here.

Here are two resources I showed you:

[|"Q Tasks" by Carol Koechlin/Sandi Zwaan]

[|"Tools for Teaching Content Literacy" by Janet Allen]

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Agenda from our time together: