Jodi Stories: writing ideas, topics, and formats by Jodi L Hanson

Why I have never worked a Day in my life being Part-Educator (like SuperJodi) (topics)

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 14:59:42 UTC

I empathize. With every struggle in a young adult’s world. And I collect them, not erase them. And I use all of those experiences to make “my kids” soar in every way I can control. Pun not intended. :)

Being a celebrity (thus proving my parents that I was right when I was 14!)

Smiles fuel my motivation. And they are there. Every. Single. Day. From the hearts and minds of others.

Lightbulbs going on when someone finally “gets it”

Why the movie Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit has been one of my favorite movies since I was in my “Teen” Ages

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 16:20:58 UTC

Situational Irony in my story, aka life

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 18:19:25 UTC

Florida... right? Cultural Awareness (a lesson on why the lines on a map are not actually a division of human beings and cultures)

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 18:29:54 UTC

7th grade ELA - Jarkira, me, Gatlin - 2007/8

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 20:18:35 UTC

That one time in sixth grade when someone dumped pencil shavings in my hair and I didn’t notice...and THEN I got off of the morning bus and into the school...

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 20:25:25 UTC

That one time I was a certified to be a teacher in all core subjects 5-9th grade... even math...

jlhanson — 2021-01-30 23:34:20 UTC

My first free concert in Madison at 21. One of my favorite songs. Lyrics are the primary source of the true message in music (that has lyrics) from my perspective anyway... those are the songs people want to purchase the rights to remake or feature in movies (like RTJ or Dolly Parton)...

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 03:30:04 UTC

That one time in middle school when I trusted my brother’s ADVICE.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 03:32:25 UTC

Also known as the last time...

I trust my brother. In some ways. Sometimes.

Reasons why the SNL 9pm rerun episode director/selector (I don’t know) is so brilliant.

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Did that just happen?!

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 04:11:14 UTC

Example: Did my twin sister just give me a diatribe about the lack of selection of house cleaning supplies anywhere on “The Island”?!

Why my favorite show in middle school was Punky Brewster...

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 06:33:40 UTC

Everything about all of this. Words, music, the human being poet behind it all... the human experience. Ask me about Hootie. From my perspective, that is... You know you want to.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 12:30:55 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uoW0dazRkeA

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 12:44:10 UTC

My first solo in an elementary school music concert...

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 13:02:33 UTC

Ok, it was just a few lyrics... but still :) aaaaand the word is actually just a combination of prefixes and suffixes... and I love that I love that!

Why? Ask me. It’s more personal than a virtual post it note.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 13:12:07 UTC

If I didn’t want to share, I wouldn’t have it on my semiprivate Padlet. Would you?

That one time, when I learned how to drive a diesel, stick shift car (after I bought it for $300 British Pounds) in three days with the driver’s seat on the right side of the car and where you drive on the left side of the road...can you picture that in a car on your road?

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 13:30:49 UTC

And that time you drove in that new structure in my very first round-about...and it was a Double round about...

Yeah. You think about lanes and rules of Right of Way... aka my scariest driving experience ever

A letter to a person who has never been to Wisconsin. Why? I’m not sure yet.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 13:39:26 UTC

Or a monologue about the things I’ve heard people say about Wisconsin (or Madison, or Wisconsin Country) who have never been here and/or know what I know from my perspective.

The power of a word...from both the receiving and sending perspectives

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 14:01:50 UTC

The definition of “Family”

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 14:25:30 UTC

These people were part of my family for every moment of my life

This one time my dad met a guy who knew a guy with a dream, a family, and great “Wisconsin Style”. And starting working in his factory.

Human experiences of my struggle to “Pick My Battles”

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 14:51:00 UTC

That one time, in Florida, when my principal (AKA my Boss) told me to get an “Adult” car...

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 15:50:08 UTC

That day when half of my students skipped school to go see the free Flo Rida concert... that was down the road from my house.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 15:55:20 UTC

So many stories. I bet I could make a haiku (or five all as one, structured, writing piece) about the feeling I had when I realized the hilarity of that moment in so many ways...

That one night, when I learned how to do The Electric Slide to “Love and Happiness”, by Al Green, and eat popcorn with Frank’s Red Hot, at their Prom. 2004

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 17:04:23 UTC

Or that one time when my substitute teaching boss, Blair, a very nice looking Aussie man, made me karaoke to Billy Ray Cyrus (you know, Miley’s Dad) at a staff party in a small little pub in London. 2005

I Am a Willow Tree with Oak Roots

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 17:28:14 UTC

(An extended metaphor....psst: look up a video about how others have created their own format to make another one using their structure!)

“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut...”

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 17:43:03 UTC

What my dad said the first time I was proud of driving farther than ten miles without a map AND without getting lost. Uhhh... thank you...?

Progressive commercials + Geico commercials < Spectrum Mobile’s newest commercial.

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 18:06:22 UTC

What is “Talk Amongst Yourselves... I’ll give you a topic” meets “the Arts of the English Language”...

Discuss.

That one time, in 2006, when my “Florida” friends and I drove from home (Florida) to Alabama, to watch their friend perform in a touring Musical...

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 18:17:09 UTC

And he turned out to be someone I worked with as a waitress in Oconomowoc when I was 19 (2001)... and we talked until 2am before driving home for work the next day.

Why are Mexican Wedding Cookies almost identical to German Pfeffernusse?

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 20:30:47 UTC

Movies that are faithful (enough for me) to their original text - off the top of my head currently

jlhanson — 2021-01-31 22:22:51 UTC

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (AKA a film almost as near and dear to my heart as Sister Act 2. Maybe tied. Depends on the day.)
The Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Stand by Me by Stephen King
Holes by Lois Sachar
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (this is not about my opinion on quality...btw.)
The original made-for-tv version of It by Stephen King
No version of The Shining, the Kubrick did make an amazing film in his own artistic vision but different overall message/theme
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Devil in a Blue Dress
Clueless (AKA Emma) by Jane Austen

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My first position as an Educator after getting my Degree/License to be Me and get paid for it (2004) Brannel School | helping students to be the best that they can be

I AM a scientific “yeah, but what if...” hypothetical thinker

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 13:27:25 UTC

Even at 7am when I’m avoiding scrubbing dishes and thinking about flipping over my raft in a river in Wisconsin... and another one in the USVIs visiting Trisha, Brittany, and Angela T.

I love being multiculturally aware (it proves my colorful perspective of the Human Experience)

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 13:46:15 UTC

-The party favor at my wedding dinner (2014)
-My Beekeeper Training (ty, Groupon!) (2015)

-Wild brush burning with science teacher/friend and 100 YA in Fitchburg (VASD 2014) and planting “leftover” party favors... or were they for that new party (#pollinatorparty2015) #gottawaittilspring #idontlikehashtags) I created for the/our future? Hmmmm...

This would make a great invitation I can write as if I am the queen bee to my party for the fight to pollinate

Or a text convo between a drone bee that doesn’t want to go and his older, wiser, brother drone...

I need coffee.

How to put together an interdisciplinary unit and field trip that are focused on multicultural awareness... as well as ridiculously fun. In 67 steps.

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 14:06:50 UTC

It’s so worth it!

Even when no one else teaching doesn’t really do any activities with it when they close their classroom doors...

Ode to Taco Dip Season (JodiWorld)

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 22:53:35 UTC

And a sheet pan of AWESOME that started it all. (2000)

That time my brother got a ticket for not stopping completely at a stop sign... on his bicycle. On an empty (so he said) road... in DOUSMAN... seriously?!

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 23:10:33 UTC

So many reactions in my mind! Maybe recreate my “notes” book that Erin and I passed to each other by timing asking to go to the bathroom at the same time (I was in 6th grade, and SHE was an EIGHTH grader! How cool!)

Groundhog’s Day

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 23:19:33 UTC

1. A cartoon strip of what that day is like for the groundhog?
2. Look more into the facts of the day... that can’t possibly be scientific truth!

3. The movie, AKA the reason Mom hated Bill Murray (she saw Caddyshack but never paid attention enough to notice him; otherwise that FOR SURE would have knocked his 🤬 off of the TV... I can’t remember the words she would use if she were to react to his character... 😔)

An updated, teacher perspective must happen.

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 23:31:02 UTC

Lyrics are the primary source behind the art of songs that people want to karaoke...

jlhanson — 2021-02-02 23:46:49 UTC

Donny Slusar.

I AM an observant and self-reflective Adaptive Adult

jlhanson — 2021-02-03 04:09:27 UTC

Write one email a week to my 8th graders who are graduating this year about how much I have enjoyed looking back at the memories and comments from my 2017 yearbook.

Side note: MAYBE ask Emily, Cade, Tyler, Robyn, Ruby, Lucia, and/or Jonah about what it would have been like if school that year was 100% virtual learning.

jlhanson — 2021-02-04 14:10:53 UTC

There’s some quality cultural awareness. I see it everywhere. And that was a one minute segment about gender inequality clearly impacting and entire country.

All I’ve ever needed to know... I learned in kindergarten...as the teacher. (2019)

jlhanson — 2021-02-04 15:20:47 UTC

Christie whatshername, my random roommate freshman year of college

jlhanson — 2021-02-04 20:59:28 UTC

A letter?
An ode to?
An ode on Pink Leopard Print (make sure to use a sarcastic tone the whole time in this poem to be, Jodes)

Why I love (my) skirts

jlhanson — 2021-02-04 21:03:52 UTC

They float around me when I twirl

With glasses on, I look more Adulty and/or intelligent... to some cultures I’ve experienced.

Barbie Teacher Nickname (by one colleague made as an off hand joke once at MMS and I never forgot the way it made me feel “less than” with serious self esteem issues already. (2006)

jlhanson — 2021-02-05 17:08:35 UTC

Make comments connecting my experiences in Madison to someone else's writing! Like the 14 year olds in my friend Rebecca's classes!

jlhanson — 2021-02-05 19:20:20 UTC

Even if I don't send them (or don't send them to anyone specific), they would definitely show my identity "I am thoughtful"! :)

The feeling like I’m in a room full of people I care about (not related to school) screaming for them to hear me...but no one is listening. (All of my 1990s/Teens)

jlhanson — 2021-02-05 23:04:36 UTC

My favorite framed sketch in my house depicts this perfectly, too.

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 14:18:54 UTC

My writer’s notebook from 2012

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 14:18:54 UTC

My writer’s notebook from 2012

Methodology v2.0(2.0)

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 14:40:44 UTC

1.You do you with an essential standard to prove a (any curriculum) EQ.
2. Then I’ll show you how I figure out how I do it.
3. Then you work together in circles to help each other get closer to their goals
4. I’ll be there observing strengths and needs to become the STRONGEST safety hand railing FOR YOU before you can even fall. Whenever you need me. To help you figure out what is making you trip. So both of our voices become stronger and louder in any language or style or audience.

Teachers/I am a Celebrity

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 19:02:32 UTC

What I Constantly learn from my 1,500 middle school Reading and ELA kids who, while I’ve only truly known many of them for nine months (and that’s a lot of names to remember besides the fact that my version of you in my heart is always a 14 year old going through puberty... ), but no one forgets stories about their middle school teachers (for good or less than perfect).

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 21:54:28 UTC

Some (one-time) high school teens in the GSA in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, made a difference to me. I know plenty of powerful words that fit where that “R word is.

What if I could...

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 23:33:15 UTC

Brainstorm an academic argumentative “paper” about my Soapbox Issue speech... voice to type... on A Google document? How AWESOME would that be?!

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 23:58:35 UTC

Why I love paying attention to the news, even through the challenging perspective of empathy mixed with deep multicultural, anti-Racist awareness of the inequity of voice and perspectives in the bias of ALL news. But I still watch it all. So I see all of the perspectives our news will at least let me see.

jlhanson — 2021-02-06 23:58:35 UTC

Why I love paying attention to the news, even through the challenging perspective of empathy mixed with deep multicultural awareness of the inequity of voice and perspectives in the bias of ALL news. But I still watch it all. So I see all of the perspectives our news provides. Also why I enjoy being like my Dad... Again.

jlhanson — 2021-02-07 00:17:45 UTC

Alton Brown.

jlhanson — 2021-02-07 00:54:43 UTC

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jlhanson — 2021-02-07 15:20:32 UTC

Erin Hendricks

jlhanson — 2021-02-07 17:38:29 UTC

My rollercoaster ride of a friendship with my closest middle school friend.

Why Literary Non-Fiction writing should be (could be?) the new Historical Fiction as a step toward equitable voices......

jlhanson — 2021-02-07 20:15:22 UTC

Well... yeah. This...

jlhanson — 2021-02-08 01:46:24 UTC

The feeling of watching the 2021 Super Bowl half time show

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jlhanson — 2021-02-09 19:46:09 UTC

My (in blue) reaction to a good friend and former coworker in ELA, sending me the link to her class’ blogspot. And her reaction to my reaction. So great. :)

jlhanson — 2021-02-10 02:24:49 UTC

Peanut butter and fried egg sandwiches

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jlhanson — 2021-02-13 18:23:33 UTC

I am a THRIVER in the face of ADVERSITY (I bet there’s a fun video to explain what I mean better on Google... :) )

Why I have a tortilla press

jlhanson — 2021-02-14 02:00:10 UTC

No, well, not totally to make tortillas...

I AM... a caregiver

jlhanson — 2021-02-14 15:32:37 UTC

That time I sent Bob Benson delivery pizza from FL to KY because I never made a family meal for him when he left at the end of the summer. 2008

jlhanson — 2021-02-14 15:48:20 UTC

I AM a Woman with a GROWTH MINDSET of their personal standards of self

jlhanson — 2021-02-14 17:13:52 UTC

My first job out of high school transcribing recipes at the dorm cafeteria at UWM. AKA the first time I realized (as an “adult”) that I could do better than this. So... what if I try something less comfortable, but more rewarding, for my work around a kitchen during college? And then I did. Best. Choice. Ever.

I am... a literary analyzer of all formats of stories

jlhanson — 2021-02-14 23:20:10 UTC

And why that can be “more of a curse than a blessing” at times.

jlhanson — 2021-02-15 05:34:47 UTC

How have I not heard of this?!

What it felt like when I got to ACTUALLY meet at supplies pickup night

jlhanson — 2021-02-18 23:16:40 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9hMAHqp9FNw

jlhanson — 2021-02-19 15:29:24 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=r3j_JGFxuj4

jlhanson — 2021-02-19 16:23:44 UTC

This is how I dance EVEN when everyone’s watching

jlhanson — 2021-02-20 13:25:57 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo1Du5CTNm0

I AM an ACTIVE Activist

jlhanson — 2021-02-23 18:16:02 UTC

How I used my voice for change this week with cultural insensitivity in a meditation app on my phone.

jlhanson — 2021-02-26 02:22:36 UTC

Hmm..

jlhanson — 2021-02-26 15:29:29 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PT4ryVop_Fc

jlhanson — 2021-02-27 19:29:17 UTC

How I felt about people in HS cross country running when I was 15. (twist: my twin sister was in it, so I got the inside deets without the running ‘for fun’)

jlhanson — 2021-02-28 15:38:31 UTC

Inspired by NBC Sunday Today interview with Jim G.

That one time I greeted my elementary school driver, a large, old, white, smiley man, with “Happy Mother’s Day”

jlhanson — 2021-02-28 15:51:09 UTC

And the fact that I actually remember that... probably because he was so nice about it... and (OMG) I got away with doing something I felt was so stupid without any of the other kids on my bus noticing. I was probably about seven years old.

That one time, when I was 13, I realized that all of Dad’s souvenirs on work trips were bought from airport gift shops...

jlhanson — 2021-03-05 01:00:01 UTC

Hahaha... now that could be a collage of images like the “gifts” that somehow grows “shades of truth” about the idea I (used to) feel about when “well, it’s the thought that counts” catches up to...I AM a Deductive Reasoner... toward the Absolute Truth. You know... like subtracting from 100 by 7s for the first time in 20 years...or getting lost just to figure out how to get back... or...

jlhanson — 2021-03-05 14:20:34 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bsL1wgy1j-Q

jlhanson — 2021-03-06 00:04:03 UTC

Moxie (2021) Fed up with the sexist and toxic status quo at her high school, a shy 16-year-old finds inspiration from her mother's rebellious past and anonymously publishes a zine that sparks a school-wide, coming-of-rage revolution.

jlhanson — 2021-03-07 12:45:47 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qETlm7vh-ug

jlhanson — 2021-03-07 13:54:07 UTC

I am a Deductive Thinker I am a Synthesizer I am an Innovator

Molly’s Game ... is how we remake history

jlhanson — 2021-03-09 01:22:07 UTC

I AM a Decidiphobic: My “hey kid, get off of my lawn!” Old person perspective on Jukeboxes.

jlhanson — 2021-03-23 22:22:21 UTC

Slash FOMO, slash lover of all jukeboxes anyway, slash hashtags are pound symbols... :)

jlhanson — 2021-03-24 01:41:19 UTC

We can all make our own mandalas/adult coloring pages!

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jlhanson — 2021-04-01 21:00:37 UTC

The Hasekers, from Beaver Ct. :)

jlhanson — 2021-04-02 16:07:39 UTC

Where do I start? I AM my mother’s smile...

jlhanson — 2021-04-02 16:07:41 UTC

Where do I start? I AM my mother’s smile...

jlhanson — 2021-04-02 16:07:41 UTC

Where do I start? I AM my mother’s smile...

That feeling you get...when you realize the music you love just so happens to have STARTED with the best poetry you’ve ever read or listened to. And that’s all that matters - my human experience - to call it beautiful.

jlhanson — 2021-04-02 18:03:59 UTC

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ky7Gnb32OLB0PdtHPMLlvhNBDUHnbOYis

jlhanson — 2021-04-04 15:08:52 UTC

I AM an appreciator of the dynamic Arts of Language and personalized learning https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ca5QoXSe18

I AM... and Allusionist: How to “Use Your ‘Allusions’”... ;)

jlhanson — 2021-04-06 04:39:38 UTC

What do The Truman Show, Nirvana, and Crayola boxes all have in common? An awesome story about Seaside, Florida.

jlhanson — 2021-04-06 21:17:06 UTC

I AM always "ALL IN"

jlhanson — 2021-04-07 14:50:44 UTC

Dirty Girl Mud Run 5K - let's not forget the communal showers in the cattle barn IN THE SAME ROOM WITH hundreds of women, including (likely) current (at the time) or previous 8th grade students...

I AM The Road Less Traveled

jlhanson — 2021-04-10 15:41:49 UTC

Because I have taken many roads less traveled... and that has made all the difference

That moment in high school... when I realized that I could at least start being an equitable educator (goal since I was a toddler) about using race as a descriptor for a person or character or author or artist so that people could at least recognize that it isn’t okay to “default” to White in their minds when imagining a human in the stories I read in class or in the news.

jlhanson — 2021-05-03 19:14:21 UTC

My amazing 18th birthday activity was going to Potawatomi Bingo...

jlhanson — 2021-05-08 15:11:32 UTC

Because your birth date is a free space, and why not?! :) we played bingo every Sunday after church growing up, so I knew what was up with people and troll dolls and key chains with rabbit feet... my grandma was like that! And I wasn’t disappointed:) I was home.

jlhanson — 2021-11-07 15:39:08 UTC

This is as far as I can climb up a palm tree. In 2021. In Kauai, Hawaii. Pretty much excited just to be close enough to touch sand and a palm tree. Getting anywhere off of the ground: solid win.

I am more than the costume you see.

jlhanson — 2021-11-28 18:53:23 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eWTJIBGNId0

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Orion (Winters)

jlhanson — 2021-12-05 23:22:11 UTC

Orion (Winters)