I cannot wait to create a class character!!! I am picturing a cardboard cut out sitting in the corner! Well or hanging on the wall, or climbing the pole, something. I loooovvee it!!! The children get to create it and all can use it and no one has to worry about offending anyone in their real lives so they can use the full spectrum of descriptive words without inhibition. Wow. Allen says “Our students become the resident experts on their topics”(p.63). Wow, how cool??
For me the essence of Chapter seven is “ When we allow students to write in multiple genres and incorporate the finr and performing arts, we help them express their ideas in ways that tap alternative thinking processes. They now have a broad repertoire of entry points into their topic”(p.86). Facts are facts and this is the research part. But… if we open up the door to different presentations of those facts then we can work in more of a strengths based environment and that is always more rewarding! And usually more creative too.
Amir
I find it interesting that he seems to believe that there is an “American” way of being neighbors where there is an underlying rule about not getting to know your neighbors but yet he, who is from India also does not know his neighbors. He is very satisfied that the garden has helped to build a sense of community in his neighborhood. All participants are more willing to see each other more in the light of a new role (fellow gardener) and this allows for more acceptance and less preconceived ideas about what people are based in their past experiences and/or believed knowledge about the person.
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