SOLSC Classroom Challenge

Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge: Day 14 of 31

Anna Gratz Cockerille

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It’s Day 14 Classroom Slicers!

Samuel Beckett once wrote:

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. 

Today as you write, consider: Are you a synthesizer or an analyzer? Are you the kind of writer who strives to capture every detail, to make your writing come alive with description? Or are you the kind of writer who favors simplicity, who aims to strip away all but the essential?

Honor the kind of writer you are, and aim to make your writing the best it can be, in whatever style you choose to write.

 

Happy Slicing!

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Published by Anna Gratz Cockerille

Anna is a staff developer, literacy coach, and writer, based in New York City. She taught internationally in places such as Sydney, Australia; San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Auckland, New Zealand in addition to New York before becoming a staff developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University (TCRWP). She has been an adjunct instructor in the Literacy Specialist Program at Teachers College, and teaches at TCRWP where she helps participants bring strong literacy instruction into their classrooms. Anna recently co-wrote Bringing History to Life with Lucy Calkins, part of the 2013 series Units of Study in Opinion, Information, and Narrative Writing (Heinemann). She has been a researcher for Lucy Calkins, contributing especially to Pathways to the Common Core (Heinemann, 2012) and Navigating Nonfiction (Heinemann, 2010).

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