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Will You Help In March?

Can you believe it is approaching the seventh annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge?

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WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" How appropriate that the year ends on a Slice of Life Tuesday!  Here's to ending a wonderful year of meeting on Tuesdays to share our… Continue reading WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

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WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” ― Anaïs Nin It is time to write your Slice, share your link, and give some comments to (at least three) other slicers. Our writing community is built on the support and encouragement we offer each other every Tuesday.   Here's… Continue reading WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

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WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind   It is time to write your Slice, share your link, and give some comments to (at least three) other slicers. Our writing community is built on the support and encouragement… Continue reading WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

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Write, share, give: SOLS time

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning… Continue reading Write, share, give: SOLS time

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WRITE, SHARE, GIVE: SOLS TIME

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