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Process Analysis ideas, samples (from Karen's 2015 workshop)

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Process Analysis ideas, samples (from Karen's 2015 workshop)

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https://movingwriters.org/
recommended by Karen at training

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link to "Always Go to the Funeral"

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NY Times Process Analysis: How to Pack for a 10-day Trip with Slideshow Explaining Process

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NY Times Process Analysis: How to Pack for a 10-day Trip with Slideshow Explaining Process

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http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/writing-to-explain-creating-how-to-scripts-and-demonstrations/?_r=0

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Amanda Christy Brown and Holly Epstein Ojalvo

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Writing to Explain: Creating How-to Scripts and Demonstrations

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Lesson Plan | A how-to on how-tos – for writing, video, slide show or live demonstration.

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Useful for modeling the beginning of a narrative

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http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

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In response to the fear- and hate-mongering alive in our country today, I have joined Julie Landsman?a writer, teacher, and activist based in Minneapolis?to create the I Am From Project. Through our website ( iamfromproject.com) and Facebook page, we?re collecting art from around the country prompted by that theme. You can listen to our interview on the National Writing Project radio here: https://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/4673.

We want to gather the diversity of our voices, and we plan to archive the results online and to present them, in some form, in D.C. We?d love to have your voice among them!

The Kentucky Arts Council has wrapped up my Where I'm From?project with a total of 731 poems from eighty-three counties. My thanks to everyone at the Council, especially Tamara Coffey, who put all those poems online. You can visit this website to find the map where you can click on any county and read offerings from poets of all ages.

"Where I'm From" grew out of my response to a poem from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet (Orchard Books, 1989; Theater Communications Group, 1991) by my friend, Tennessee writer Jo Carson. All of the People Pieces, as Jo calls them, are based on things folks actually said, and number 22 begins, "I want to know when you get to be from a place. " Jo's speaker, one of those people "that doesn't have roots like trees, " tells us "I am from Interstate 40" and "I am from the work my father did. "

In the summer of 1993, I decided to see what would happen if I made my own where-I'm-from lists, which I did, in a black and white speckled composition book. I edited them into a poem - not my usual way of working - but even when that was done I kept on making the lists. The process was too rich and too much fun to give up after only one poem. Realizing this, I decided to try it as an exercise with other writers, and it immediately took off. The list form is simple and familiar, and the question of where you are from reaches deep.

Since then, the poem as a writing prompt has traveled in amazing ways. People have used it at their family reunions, teachers have used it with kids all over the United States, in Ecuador and China; they have taken it to girls in juvenile detention, to men in prison for life, and to refugees in a camp in the Sudan. Its life beyond my notebook is a testimony to the power of poetry, of roots, and of teachers. My thanks to all of you who have taken it to heart and handed it on. It's a thrill to read the poems you send me, to have a window into that many young souls.

I hope you won't stop there, though. Besides being a poem in its own right, "Where I'm From" can be a map for a lot of other writing journeys. Here are some things I've thought of:

Where to Go with "Where I'm From"

While you can revise (edit, extend, rearrange) your "Where I'm From" list into a poem, you can also see it as a corridor of doors opening onto further knowledge and other kinds of writing. The key is to let yourself explore these rooms. Don't rush to decide what kind of writing you're going to do or to revise or finish a piece. Let your goal be the writing itself. Learn to let it lead you. This will help you lead students, both in their own writing and in their response as readers. Look for these elements in your WIF poem and see where else they might take you:

a place could open into a piece of descriptive writing or a scene from memory.

your parents' work could open into a memory of going with them, helping, being in the way. Could be a remembered dialogue between your parents about work. Could be a poem made from a litany of tools they used.

an important event could open into freewriting all the memories of that experience, then writing it as a scene, with description and dialogue. It's also possible to let the description become setting and directions and let the dialogue turn into a play.

food could open into a scene at the table, a character sketch of the person who prepared the food, a litany of different experiences with it, a process essay of how to make it.

music could take you to a scene where the music is playing; could provide you the chance to interleave the words of the song and words you might have said (or a narrative of what you were thinking and feeling at the time the song was first important to you ("Where I'm Singing From").

something someone said to you could open into a scene or a poem which captures that moment; could be what you wanted to say back but never did.

a significant object could open into a sensory exploration of the object-what it felt, sounded, smelled, looked, and tasted like; then where it came from, what happened to it, a memory of your connection with it. Is there a secret or a longing connected with this object? A message? If you could go back to yourself when this object was important to you, what would you ask, tell, or give yourself?

Remember, you are the expert on you. No one else sees the world as you do; no one else has your material to draw on. You don't have to know where to begin. Just start. Let it flow. Trust the work to find its own form.

Where Others Have Gone with "Where I'm From"

Watch a visual poem based on "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon, created by Julia Daniel for Tamalpais High School's Academy of Integrated Humanities and New Media (AIM), fall 2010:

A Young Artist's Own "Where I'm From" in Words and Image:
In Winter of 2008, Sage Hennequin Kuhens was enrolled in University of South Carolina Upstate's "Write Here, Write Now: Sharing Slices of Life Through the Magic of Digital Storytelling," a series of writing and publishing workshops sponsored by the Spartanburg Community Writing Center. At eight years old, Sage was the youngest among her group of about 50 or so students, and was determined to be as independent as she could be. Her delightful instructor, Tasha Thomas, encouraged her independence.

I'm from big blue herons to small river otters,
I'm from big Metasequioas to tall stalks of bamboo,
I'm from cousins that were unknown to the closest of friends,
I'm from my mom and dad to my lab-beagle dog, albino rats, and Madagascar hissing cockroaches,
I'm from roaring water falls to silent flowing streams,
I'm from terrifying Zombie walks and Scarowinds to a gentle princess-loving godsister and godbrother
I'm from pepperoni pizza to microwaved meatballs,
I'm from my inspiration station drawing and writing to a homemade book,
I'm from my old dog Chani to red-shouldered hawks,
I'm from Jack the magic clown to my weird parents,
I'm from a tiny baby to an educated sister showing baby MinMin what school's like,
I'm from bold looking deer to relaxing foxes,
I'm from making a fire in the county to ridin' in a cotton combine,
I'm from a fan of Alexa Vega and Miley Cyrus to a spy lovin' tween (me),
I'm from playing with cockroaches with a friend to Joe and I together,
I'm from my heritages to Mom's mystery heritages,
I have an opinion that none can change...life is great!

-Sage Hennequin Kuhens 1-29-08

The Hale Pono Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii posted ?Where I?m From? by Dixie Castillo on their blog. Read it here.

Here?s a poem based on ?Where I?m From? written by an eighth grade student as part of a study of The Killer Angels. The lesson plan is here.

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official site of george ella lyon writer and teacher

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new words: poems from the appalachian poetry project

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Where I'm From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher

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Where I'm From, a poem by George Ella Lyon, writer and teacher

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Structuring writing can help the writer determine how to develop the writing. Play with structure. What if the piece were in a different order or it has a different focus. How can I try to magnify the most important part? How else might this go?

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DEVELOPING (Collecting Around One Topic) in a notebook

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DEVELOPING (Collecting Around One Topic) in a notebook

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Select a genre and craft a few different beginnings.

Select another genre (perhaps a poem) and craft another beginning of write the whole poem.

What genre gets to the heart of the message? Might this be a multi genre piece?

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DEVELOPING, (Collecting Around One Topic) in a notebook

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DEVELOPING, (Collecting Around One Topic) in a notebook

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Take two related or seemingly unrelated topics and write "between them". Write how one is like another. Do this as a free - write so that you surprise yourself.

Later you may want to ask yourself who you are writing for and what you most want to say

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Internet Sources for lessons on keeping a writer's notebook

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Internet Sources for lessons on keeping a writer's notebook

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Penny Kittle shares some of her favorite lessons for helping kids write in their notebooks.

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We write next to poetry almost every day in my classroom. Poetry distills images and word choice and captures big ideas in small spaces, as I tell my students. It is an ideal text to study because we can reread it several times and see more as we do.

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Drive Brand Studio - Branding, Advertising, Marketing, Websites

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We write next to poetry almost every day in my classroom. Poetry distills images and word choice and captures big ideas in small spaces, as I tell my students. It is an ideal text to study because we can reread it several times and see more as we do.

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Internet Sources for Information (lessons) about notebook writing.  

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Internet Sources for Information (lessons) about notebook writing.  

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Peak inside published authors' notebooks and read about their notebook keeping habits and processes or go to the TRY this section and try one of the collecting strategies.

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Hi Friends, I have been away from this space for some time, but I will be back beginning September 2021. While I adored being a classroom teacher, I also missed writing and teaching from here. I am no longer in the classroom, but instead you will find me here and at The Poem Farm. If you are interested in sharing your notebook, please just let me know. See you soon! xo, Amy

I know that some of you are home from school these days, and I hope you will find some new notebooking ideas here. I love keeping a notebook for writing, for drawing, for making a place for ideas and dreams and wishes and facts and feelings. This blog is home to many peeks into others' notebooks, and in each post you will find photos, notebooking-thoughts, and an idea to try. Feel free to poke around, notebook by your side, and explore your own brain and heart. Sometimes we don't know what we really think until we write. If you like writing poetry, feel free to visit my other site, full of poem writing ideas - www.poemfarm.amylv.com xxxx, Amy

Readers - if you or one of your students or friends keeps a notebook and would like to share in this space, please send an e-mail to amy at amylv dot com. I welcome your contributions and will send you the post specs for this blog.

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Hi Friends, I have been away from this space for some time, but I will be back beginning September 2021. While I adored being a classroom teacher, I also missed writing and teaching from here. I am no longer in the classroom, but instead you will find me here and at The Poem Farm.

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Images that Stick in Your Mind or Writing from a Photograph 

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Images that Stick in Your Mind or Writing from a Photograph 

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What you see. (Description)
What you wonder
What you remember
Describe the mood
Describe the time in history

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New York Times Photojournalism - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives - Lens Blog - The New York Times

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Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers and the pictures of the day, the Times photo blog also seeks to highlight the best work of othe…

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Giving students a tour of your own notebook

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Giving students a tour of your own notebook

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Talk through the kinds of writing in your notebook, how you got the ideas, what you imagine the writing might be some day and parts you like.

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This padlet has resources and information to help you teach students how to generate ideas for writing and how to develop those ideas. It also has a some information on mentor texts.

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Picture This! Building Photo-Based Writing Skills

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Lesson Plan | A menu of activities for cultivating writing, vocabulary and skimming skills, using photographs as prompts.

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Write from a quote or use the beginning of the writer's words to help guide your first sentence.

Quotes from Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher

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Looking at an object from different perspectives is one of the things a writer does in order to elaborate, see beauty, find comparison, or write in fresh ways.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by... | Poetry Foundation

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For Teachers and Students

How to Write - Tom Romano