After reading aloud an excerpt, "Hopefully it will illustrate how these different feelings that I was trying to convey⊠get conveyed and complicated through the imageryâŠ" @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg
"...itâs always funny to analyze my own paragraphs like this but I put my teacher hat on... " @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg [Love her modeling how she& #39;d analyze with students!]
"...I chose all of these details carefully and it was in order to show the beauty of the place and also the potential dangers of the place." @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg
Prompt from @nina_lacour: Look around your surroundings and think of a mood. Settle on one feeling, write it at the top of your paper. [Shout out to Summer, thank you for retyping in the chat!] #ALAN20 @ALANorg
Prompt from @nina_lacour: What would you focus on to think about the feeling you chose? Make a list of the feelings focusing on the object(s). [Shout out to Summer, thank you for retyping in the chat!] #ALAN20 @ALANorg
"Come up with the next feeling, opposite feeling, I want you to do the same thing, but using [opposite feeling] instead." @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg
On using prompts like this with students, how it helps:
"...Start from that place of confidence & #39;Iâm good at this thing so Iâm going to continue& #39; " @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg
"...Start from that place of confidence & #39;Iâm good at this thing so Iâm going to continue& #39; " @nina_lacour #ALAN20 @ALANorg