Received: from [209.75.187.203] (HELO ) by MDCCLXXVI.com (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b6) with SMTP id S.0000283166 for <6Tarchive@CyberSpaces.net>; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:10:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:10:01 -0700 Subject: 6Traits Digest #52 - 08/11/99 From: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> To: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: <6Traits@> Precedence: Bulk List-Software: LetterRip Pro 3.0.5 by Fog City Software, Inc. List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Unsubscribe: Message-Id: 6Traits Digest #52 - Wednesday, August 11, 1999 Web Site by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Conventions by "Barbara D. Martin" Re: 6Traits- ****Conventions Example**** by "Anna Liu" conventions by "D. Weissman" Re: 6Traits- Update on course by "Robin" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Web Site From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:49:07 -0700 Whew! I have all strategies up, except Conventions. All rubrics, except Conventions, are also up. The synonyms for said and asked are updated - one more person's list to cross check, which does have more words for asked. You can see we came up a little short on synonyms for asked. If you have more, after tomorrow's update, please = mailto:susan@desertskyone.com The Storybits page is up. There is no back button on the page. You will have to use the one on your browser. I couldn't add anything to it after Excel and MS Wizard were done with it. At least it's there! =3D) I'm still working on the sense words. The last page of the Word Choice strategies is currently a repeat page. I have something more to add to = it, but accidently ftp'd it. If there are other horrors, as why wouldn't there be at midnight???? =3D) please let me know. You will notice some people's last names are still missing. Using my husband's computer, I didn't have all your messages and files, so I couldn't go check who you are. Adios, amigos, y buenos noches. Susan, practicing for school next week. =3D) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Conventions From: "Barbara D. Martin" Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:21:35 -0700 Susan, Some of the examples you sent in called to mind a poem of my grandmother's. The students love it, and it might be fun to have on hand. I have no idea who the author was. Barbara Is he went? Was he gone? Has he left I all alone? Us can never go to he; Him must always came to we. It can never was! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- ****Conventions Example**** From: "Anna Liu" Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:16:28 PDT Horton Hatches the Egg By: Dr. Seuss ..."It's strange! It's amazing! It's wonderful! New! Don't shoot him. We'll CATCH him. That's just what we'll do! Let's take him alive. Why, he's terribly funny! We'll sell him back home to a circus, for money!"... Anna Toronto, Ontario ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: conventions From: "D. Weissman" Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:01:27 -0400 I am having trouble with sending an example of conventions. Published material has good conventions - and I don't have student examples immediately available. What I did think of was A.A. Milne's use of capitals in Winnie the Pooh and other works: "There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well-known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals. . . ." His use of capitals seems to me a way to emphasize the way the characters are thinking of things as categories. Deb Weissman Gr 6 Jaffrey, NH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- Update on course From: Robin Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:11:27 -0400 Just want to share ....our students started back on Monday. Yesterday I introduced voice and used Langston Hughes and Shel Silverstein poetry. = We did the activity with the postcards posted on the web site for voice. Then we = wrote a "I use to be...., but now I am...poem. It went really well...I can't = wait to do more (time did not allow for me to get to everything today) Robin Susan Nixon wrote: > Dear Writing Friends, > > As you can see, we have started our final week of traits. When we began = on > July 5, we had 170 people with us. By the end of the week, 20 had left, > and over the last 4 weeks, we've lost another 20 or so, but we've also > gained 10, so we're holding steady at about 135-140 participants in the = list. > > Whether you have been here every day or not, whether you have posted = every > assignment, or been a reader and cogitator, you are to be commended for > spending your precious summer vacation time learning something new. On = the > plus side, it will help you, according to research, to avoid Alzheimer's > Disease. On the plus side, you will be ready to help your colleagues = with > the traits. More and more states are adopting the 6Traits of Writing as = a > method of teaching, evaluating and scoring writing samples, including > standardized testing for the state. > > I have enjoyed the correspondence we have carried on as a group, and the > individual notes that have passed between us. You have been a great = group > with which to work, and I look forward to our continued association as = this > course moves to a normal listserv. > > Thanks to Kerry L., Barbara M., and Linda N. (and probably others I = forgot > to post on here) we have enough to cover the web site and the list for = the > next year, plus one month. Thank you so much for taking responsibility = for > this. For each of you, it wasn't a hardship. Frankly, for me, it would > have been, but I would have done it, feeling that it was important. = It's > nice that you cared enough to help. > > Next week, we will address some issues of Writer's Workshop, because = many > people have asked about it and I promised we would. That will give many = of > us time to get back into the classroom, preparing for those new minds we > will face in the next week or two. Some of you have longer vacations, = or > started later than others of us, and you can say, "Nanny-Nanny Boo-Boo," = to > those of us back at work. In case you didn't know, that's the mature > second grade "hard time" to offer your friends. =3D) > > I will continue to update and add to the web site, of course, and if = there > are things you would like to see on the web page, please be sure to let = me > know. I don't promise to make all your dreams come true, but I do want = to > make the site something you can visit over and over and continue to use = - > not much point in it otherwise. > > Please share the site with all your friends and colleagues. Well, I > suppose the engineers and bankers wouldn't be interested. =3D) > > There are two sets of rubric scores I need to share with you, and I will = do > that tomorrow - sentence fluency and organization. If you know of = anything > else I've missed, or if you feel that you need further clarification on = any > trait, please feel free to throw the question out to the group, or to me > individually. > > According to Psychologist Beth Bruno, on the Teachers Net page, teaching > someone a new skill is 90% effective in your learning it yourself. = Doing > it is 75% effective. So get out there and do and teach! > > Sincerely, > > Susan > > -- > To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: > 6Traits-off@. > Archive of past digests is at: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of 6Traits Digest -- To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: 6Traits-off@. Archive of past digests is at: