RMWP Camp Day 2

7:40-3:40

Schedule:
- I read aloud a passage from Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper to introduce the lesson on synesthesia
- Synesthesia Prezi
- Introduction to Kandinski art
- Example poems describing sounds
- Brainstorm personally relevant sound moments
- Visit to ArtPlay to practice drawing sounds, paint a sound moment, and work with watercolors
- Computer lab time to type emotion poems
- Lesson on "The Music of Words" (sound, rhythm, alliteration, assonance, repetition, rhyme, and onomatopoeia)
- Read writing out loud to evaluate the 7 elements and make changes
- Peer conferences with guiding questions
- Share time

I find it funny that I seem to be so quiet and reserved at this camp. I still feel so unsure of myself... These students are very different than those at my school. Their vocabularies seem even more expansive than my own, so their writing definitely conveys the power of words. Although I have technical knowledge about writing and poetry, I struggle to feel as though I can really guide them to improve their work. In some ways, I feel like it is theirs - and I don't want to try to control them.

However, I asked for more suggestions today:
* Never use "you"
* Remove parts that sound like a paragraph
* If a student cannot explain the reasoning for a decision, they aren't fully committed to it.
* Take out repetition that is not purposeful and does not add to the meaning or feeling
* Change the order of adjectives so that they are not always grouped together in a predictable way