Just before we left for our Thanksgiving break, a fellow teacher I’d been trying to persuade to join our Slice of Life community emailed me to say that she’d finally got her blog up and was really excited about writing a slice of life every Tuesday. It was going to be her New Year’s resolution.… Continue reading WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME
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Write, Share, Give: SOLS Time
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.” ― Neil Gaiman
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SOLS & A New Link
Before you link your Slice of Life Story today, please take a few minutes to check out our newly designed Slice of Life Information Page!
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All Because We Shared Our Stories
Our stories bond us together. I have known this to be true ever since I started writing, but I saw real evidence of it today as I walked down the hallways of my school building.
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Link Your Slice of Life Story
Now, it is time to write your slice, share your link, and give some comments to (at least three) other slicers.
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Slice of Life & RSVP
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~Maya Angelou I am thankful to be hosting the Slice of Life Story Challenge on Tuesdays during the month of November. Writing Slice of Life Stories is what brought me to the Two Writing Teachers website so many years ago, so it is… Continue reading Slice of Life & RSVP
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Slice of Life in the classroom: How to rubric and grade our project
Launching our yearlong Slice of Life writing challenge is an exhilarating experience for my sixth graders. None of them have done any type of digital writing, and the very idea of posting a slice, seeing it “go public,” and then watching as classmates comment and compliment their writing is, as one of my kiddos put… Continue reading Slice of Life in the classroom: How to rubric and grade our project
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Slicing in the Classroom All Year Long
The week of June 10th was hectic around here. I had a sleuth of appointments, was doing major revisions to the keynote I'm delivering this Thursday, and was getting ready to visit family in Connecticut. Therefore, I missed Tara Smith's post about her sixth grade students' final slice of the school year. All 50 of… Continue reading Slicing in the Classroom All Year Long
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#allwrite13 Online Connections Dinner
Since Ramona asked and she traveled all the way from Seattle, I honored her request. We went around the room and introduced ourselves. It was a big dinner party -- 33 people in all. Check out who was there. I've been excited for months about this dinner. After all it was a room full of… Continue reading #allwrite13 Online Connections Dinner
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Just Write.
I hope you are taking the summer to just write. Life is too short not to write. I've been percolating today's blog post and planned to write it this afternoon. However, plans changed, so this slide from my keynote presentation will have to do. Hopefully it will nudge you to write. One of the reasons… Continue reading Just Write.
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#slice2013: 30 of 31
WRITE. Each day in March write a slice on your own blog. SHARE. Link your post here (using the SAME username each day) before the comments close. (Comments typically close around 5 am.) GIVE. Comment on at least three other slices. Any questions, please contact: Linda Baie – lindab414[at]gmail[dot]com (If you last name begins with A… Continue reading #slice2013: 30 of 31
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#slice2013: 17 of 31
WRITE. Each day in March write a slice on your own blog. SHARE. Link your post here (using the SAME username each day) before the comments close. (Comments typically close around 5 am.) GIVE. Comment on at least three other slices. Any questions, please contact: Linda Baie – lindab414[at]gmail[dot]com (If you last name begins with… Continue reading #slice2013: 17 of 31
