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One sentence says it all

I love Two Writing Teachers' Day in a Sentence post so much that I wrote one myself about my last post.  It's a sentence haiku that could be used to sum up any lesson.  What a great little assessment tool.  The sentences could also be put on strips and used for bulletin boards. 

Here's mine:

Feeding bread to ducks,

we ran delightfully free

just being ourselves.

I also discovered the link while visiting Two Writing Teachers to Kevin's Meandering Mind Blog and encourage you to go there and submit your own sentence haiku.  What fun!

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Posted: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:58 AM by Betty
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Michael Doyle said:

Caught two spotted hake

Lives altered, I remember

Students who can't swim.

# November 16, 2008 4:30 PM

Joel said:

I just made a post

That was similar to this

It has fifty words

# November 16, 2008 7:13 PM

Kevin said:

Thanks for sharing your haikus at Day in a Sentence and I invite you to join us for the weekly activity, which is often just a sentence but sometimes we throw a curve ball into the mix (such as haikus).

I usually put a call out for sentences in the middle of the week.

Kevin

# November 17, 2008 4:16 AM

Sean Nash said:

This post reminds me of a lesson I sat in on last week as an instructional coach.  In the middle of the lesson, the teacher showed a video about a project for six word memoirs.  The kids really launched into it...

I felt compelled to lay one down myself:

"three girls and me? oh no!"

Of course, this had to do with the fact that my wife and I are soon expecting the birth of our second daughter.

Things like this can scaffold up to much more powerful student writing.  They CAN do this...  and that is empowering.

Sean

# November 28, 2008 3:11 PM

Dr. Davis said:

I liked this idea as a check to make sure I know why I am teaching a lesson.

# November 28, 2008 3:19 PM
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