Writing Fellows I

Due today

• "drafting Notes"
• 20 mins of Creative engagement
• How did that go?
• Format: total freedom
• How did that go?

A micro-step you could take at this stage in the writing process?

Write Away

• Beginning to Think like a tutor:
• What would you tell a writer who is in this stage of writing?

Reflecting on our identities and experiences as writers

Thinking as a Writer: Writing Process and Mindset

Writing Process: Betty Flowers article

THinking as a tutor: What role does feedback play in a writer's development?

What are the characteristics of an effective tutor?

UP NEXT:
Tips for effective feedback based on the stage of writing
the "What" and "WHY" of Writing Centers

HW: (end of week?)
"Artist" draft: can be wild, untamed; but must be complete
Focus: vivid, in-the-moment
detail
Also: BIRD by Bird

Today:

• Two choices: Let's vote!
• Read more "bird by Bird"
• or
• Independent writing time?

Write Away:

• What goes on inside your head when you write? Animating these "voices", creating characters.

What Can a writing center be?

We want to Know

• Their Values? Services? Space? How do they work? Inspiration for us?

-WC Discovery PRESENTATION:
-"Yes PLease"/"No thank you" list

Write Away:
Craft an ideal vision for a BHS writing center

"DESCRIBE THE VIBE"
What would it look like, feel like, What would be happening there?

Homework: Based on our core Values generation, draft a mission statement

Today's goals:
1. reflect/debrief: how are you growing as a Writing tutor? What are a few habits or strategies you have learned "on the job"?

today, we will...

• tutoring skill focus: helping writers elaborate and refine ideas by asking thoughtful, specific questions

Inside the Tutoring Session:
Getting Started
1st priority?

Establishing Rapport:
How and why?

Tutor's toolbox

• asking questions (vs...?)
• Listening actively (vs...?)
• Responding as a reader (vs..?)
• Silence and wait time (vs...?)
• Letting the Writer lead/Set goals (vs...?)

finish the sentence:
Questioning is preferable to supplying answers, offering evaluations, or giving general advice because...

it encourages the writer to do the thinking!

Most questions aim to encourage writer to
AMPLIFY
SPECIFY

Early Draft Feedback:
Global: "What's the Big Idea here?"
"Panning for Gold"
What to shrink or expand
Hot Spots + Cold Spots

Not...

• Grammar
• Word choice
• Format

try re-wording:

• a. this is too wordy
• b. this is not clear
• c. this doesn't tell me what the significance is
• d. this language is too general
• E. If I were you I would...
• F. YOu might want to Delete
• G. You should

Session Reflection:
Highs and Lows?
What came naturally?
Strategies?
Goals?

2. a moment when you were at your best

3. A weird or awkward moment: (hesitation? regret? lack of certainty?)

Goal

• finished Carpenter draft by Next Tues:
• -"So what" (unifying message)
• -Well-chosen episodes/illustrations
• -Vivid sensory detail (snapshots, thought shots)
• -Proportion (Everything is necessary)
• -Voice/Style/Word choice

Today: The ever-elusive "so what":
What I am really Getting at here is....

today, we will...

• tutoring skill focus: Meeting students where they are: Role PLaying different scenarios

The different "hats" of a tutor

• ALLY
• Coach
• commentator
• collaborator
• Expert
• learner
• counselor

Write Away:

• Choose a quote from what we read so far in Bird by Bird:
• Why did you choose it?
• Relevance To you as a writer?
• Relevance To you as a tutor?

Due TUESDAY:
25 minutes of Architect work on Narrative

Today

• Autobiography of a writer: -Share revision work/progress with partner (20 minutes)
• "So What?"
• How does each episode develop/connect to your "so what"?
• structure, proportion
• Exploded moments"

steps

• switch writing with partner
• read through, generate 4-5 questions for writer
• confer: use questions to guide
• writers: comment on the usefulness of partner's questions

: "S***Ty 1st drafts" with quotes that apply to you as a writer and Tutor &

LEt's Brainstorm...

• "Write Here. Write Now"
• "Yeah, Write."

I thought I heard someone say "We should have a slogan"

Today:

• Pass the mission statement
• updates on goals and projects
• follow-ups with teachers?
• Synchronous Tutoring sessions
• In-person, virtual (make a live virtual appointment.)

Today's Goals:
1. Debrief/Reflect on sessions
2. operation "space clarity"

Yesterday, we...
Discussed and explored examples/elements of powerful narrative

journal:
1. How have your tutoring skills evolved? What strategy, technique, or practice have you picked up "on the job"?

Follow-up on our WC/LC exploration:
What did you notice? How did you feel? Write from a student, a tutor, and a teacher’s POV.

Look at core values: How were they reflected in the place?

Operation third space:

• What can the learning commons be?
• Let's ask idea girl / madman/artist/child
• Then, we'll call the architect

Begin with core values sense of purpose

Collaboration
Growth
Community
Empowerment

Week of Sept 19

• Operation third Space:
• SUCCESS!
• How will it be the same/different?
• What questions remain?

Q: Why is it important to sit side-by-side?

Write Away:
Tutoring Scenario Skits:
shout-outs and takeaways?

Two birds.
One Stone.

OPENING DAY

• Vision
• Logistics
• Prep