Monday, June 18, 2007

Monday, Monday: Minutes from the Blog Team and an Invocation to the Muse


Notes from Katie the Blog Dog...







Barb tells me she was not the only one struggling with Monday, so I offer you a simple melody with lyrics that speak for so many of our group yesterday.
She told me that when she slid into class after an early but rocky start, she learned that the demonstration scheduled for Monday was canceled.

After some warm up writing, I heard that you guys scrambled off in search of a muse, to get centered, or to find space to write, read, or access a computer. When you reconvened, Julia started off by discussing her reading...she and Laura both noticed how nice it is to find research validating best practices already in play in your classrooms. Liz shared her response to Johnston's Choice Words, a reminder to many of us of the power of word choice.





Small writing groups shuffled off to share lunch and writing, and as we regrouped after this break, we were entertained and enlightened by Zak Hamby's "Attaining New Heights Through Readers' Theatre." Being the thespian that I am, I was disappointed to learn that I had missed being cast in Zak's play version of "The Tale of Perseus"
because I have lovely costumes as you can see. Below I am pictured as Athena, goddess of wisdom (but it should be beauty as well). So...as I understand from Barb, there are many budding actors (seasoned ones, too) in the group.



The Gray Sisters were
relishing their roles as eyeball sharing, witchy women, and Polydectes and Medusa were particularly evil...Kudos to Zak for reworking the format of his class, writing all those play scripts and no doubt bringing joy and life to mythology. All I want to know is...where is the part for the dog?



I'm sure I left a lot of you out and didn't do justice to the minutes of the day, but you know how it is to get your information second hand. I'm only as good as what she (Barb) tells me. Perhaps you'd like to post the poems you wrote in the comment section of this post. Heck, maybe you'd like to be more visible by creating a post about it. Please feel free to comment additional thoughts!

5 comments:

Mr. Neuburger said...

I have spoken with dogs, sometimes carrying on extended conversations with them, but this is the first time I have responded to one by writing. I now know dogs can write and will begin teaching mine. Katiedog listens pretty well and seems to have covered all the bases of yesterday's events. Well done!

Keri said...

Dear Katie,
I respect your work very much, but I do not like the picture you chose of me. May I have a redo and a chance to put on some lipstick?

Thanks,
Keri

Susan M&M said...

Dear Katiedog, If my Mommy were more technologically savvy, my picture would be in front of you right now. But I guess for now I'll just introduce myself. I'm Roth, almost 4 years old, and quite the German Shepherd. My Mom calls me semi, I think because I am so long. I do hope that she uses the word affectionately.

I know what you mean about only being able to report what you are told. Our humans are quite frustrating sometimes. For example, Mexican roofers (not reefers) crawled all over my deck yesterday, and Mom would not even let me bark at them. She kept saying "Paper!Paper! and hitting this tube thing on her hands, making stupid sounds. I finally quit barking just to keep her happy. Right now I am lying on the floor next to the computer with my little sister Emma. We are waiting for Mom to quit this tap, tap, tapping so we can go to bed. We are tired from all of her writing STUFF!!!

Maybe tomorrow Mom will find out how to send my picture to you. I have a really great one -- of course!! Until then, nice to meet you, Katiedog.

Your friend in the trenches, Roth

Dr. Cosmo said...

Dearest Keri, Sorry about the lipstick, but my mom doesn't even let me wear lipstick yet...afraid I'd eat it!

Dr. Cosmo said...

Dear Roth, We could use a good German shepard on the LBDT. Please refer to my Wednesday post. Can't wait to meet you!