Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the location of the “round up” of student slices.… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 23 of 31

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. --Tobias Wolff We're heading into the second-to-last weekend of the Challenge.  How's the weekend writing going for your kids?  I know some of you have been impressed with your students' eagerness to keep slicing on the weekends.  Feel free to share your… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 22 of 31

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.  –Carol Burnett Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the location of the “round up” of student slices. (Click here to… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 21 of 31

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. --Gustave Flaubert Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the location of the “round up” of student slices. (Click here… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 20 of 31

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. – Michelangelo How are your kids doing with the Challenge?  Do they have the steam they need to see this through 'til the end?  I hope so!  Please share… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 19 of 31

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. --Ernest Hello Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 18 of 31

It is not length of life, but depth of life. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the location of the “round up” of student slices. (Click here to… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 17 of 31

We're a little past the halfway mark for the March Challenge!

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.  --Henry David Thoreau Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom or personal blog. Then, share the unique URL to the location of the “round… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 15 of 31

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego. --Norman Mailer What did your students think of the Classroom Commenting Challenge? Please share their reflections when you leave the link to their slice of life stories today or tomorrow.  (Whatever is easier for you.) Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 14 of 31

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.  --Author Unknown The Classroom Commenting Challenge continues today. (Click here to learn more about it.)  I hope your students continue to feel the comment love! Details: If your students are slicing from their personal blogs, then you should link their blog posts together using your classroom… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 13 of 31

Writing is kind of like fishing... you have to rely on your instincts. --Kevin Canty in The New Yorker Get ready for the Classroom Commenting Challenge, which begins today.  Click here to learn more about it.   It is my hope your students will get lots of comments from the entire slicing community over the course of… Continue reading Classroom SOLSC: 12 of 31