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 Teacher Portfolio: Tamara Turnbeaugh a Northern Nevada teacher shares on-line lessons and ideas
Too often students view writing as merely a dreaded activity confined solely to the English classroom. It has nothing to do with the path they see for themselves in the Real World. It is something to slog through until the bell rings and freedom beckons. It is a punishment bestowed upon them by heartless teachers. It is unnatural and forced discourse about something for which they have no feeling. Writing is stupid. It is my belief that writing is necessary to the exploration of self, community, and world. It is my job to teach students to make these meaningful connections in order to think deeper about the world, and to write deeper about a given topic. To do this I believe in bringing a variety of resources—written, visual, and auditory-- into the classroom to demonstrate that writing and the ideas presented extend beyond the school’s walls. The bigger the web we weave together, the easier it is for them to catch connections on their own. My goal is that when a student approaches writing, rather than saying “this is boring,” she will be able see the threads that weave throughout the writing, her life, and the world and will then be able to write passionately. As Sylvia Plath put it, “everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.” |
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Four of Tamara's Lessons at WritingFix: |
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| Lesson: A Monster of a Metaphor Focus Trait: Idea Development Support Trait: Sentence Fluency
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Lesson: Same Setting, Different Moods Focus Trait: Idea Development Support Trait: Sentence Fluency |
Lesson: Ain't That America
Focus Trait: Idea Development
Lesson: Creating Memorable Advice
Focus Trait: Idea Development Tamara presents the two lessons above as part of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's iPods Across the Curriculum inservice class.
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Tamara presents the two lessons above as part of the Northern Nevada Writing Project's Literature as Mentor Texts in Writing Assignments inservice class. |
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Other Teachers' WritingFix Lessons that Tamara Uses: |
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| Lesson: Poems of Apology Focus Trait: Sentence Fluency Support Trait: Idea Development
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Lesson: Antonyms and Comma Splices Focus Trait: Conventions Support Trait: Word Choice |
Lesson: Poems of Condition Focus Trait: Sentence Fluency Support Trait: Idea Development
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Lesson: Where is the Love?
Focus Trait: Idea Development Support Trait: Voice |
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