Thanksgiving "Break"

To do:

Hang out with boyfriend

Hang out with Dad

Go to Three Thanksgivings & photograph them

Pick up two pies, make one.

Finish shooting and editing WA4

Edit photos

Take photos

Make a website

Help friends move

whew. I hope I can pull it off.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/20404982

http://www.tbp.org/pages/Publications/Bent/Features/W07Brown.pdf

http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/content/peytonfamlitpaper.pdf

Commerce Chapter: http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/pdk/

Website with all the sources (requires log-in):

http://www.pdkintl.org/join/find.htm

http://www.edweek.org/login.htmlsource=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1985/06/12/06060016.h04.html&destination=http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1985/06/12/06060016.h04.html&levelId=2100

other sources found:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Johnny-Cant-Write&id=1234359

http://www.amazon.com/Dysgraphia-Johnny-Handbook-Teachers-Parents/dp/9990635625

http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Education/8OnWriting.html

http://cowee.wcu.edu/hypermail/lists/newfaculty/0021.html

http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/download/nwp_file/12468/Crash!_The_Currency_Crisis_in_American_Culture.pdf?x-r=pcfile_d

http://www.ncow.org/features/who_said_full.htmlhttp://www.englishthatworksite.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/howwecanteachjohnnytowrite.pdfhttp://www.reading.org/Libraries/Position_Statements_and_Resolutions/ps1036_adolescent.sflb.ashx

It is going to be impossible to have a draft by monday, because I can't even interview the teachers till tuesday or thursday. :-/ What do u suggest I do?

Video responce

I tried to find the video to refresh my memory, but the link I have isn't working. http://www.ncow/features/who_said_fullhtml

I do remember the video was somewhat one sided. It gave examples of bad writing, but the context wasn't given. They didn't do a controlled test, the writings could have been meant to be poems instead of paragraphs. It seems that they just wanted to stir up trouble.

Michael C. Miller

Iwent to "On Being an Artist: Daily Affirmations and Gang Violence” presented by Michael C. Miller. He is a professor of Art at TAMU-Commerce. His work is really cool. It pretty much all had text and a sort of clip art style painting on Walmart fabric. Despite that awful description his work is really cool. The piece on this page was one of my favorites. He has a student find clip art and another put bits of fabric on canvas "without any design, make it ugly." From the ugly fabric he makes beautiful interesting, sometimes colorful multimedia images. His body of work reminds me strongly of Maggie Taylor, except of using photoshop and photographs he work in a studio with fabric and paint. I havnen't been drawn to collage style art before this year, but I'm becoming very fond of it.

Aside from that Commerce Week on Writing was very fun and interesting. I really enjoyed all the events I went to. I wish the did this stuff more.

Wednesday Events, National week on writing.

@ 1:00 I went to the Norris Community Panel. There were five community members who spoke and answered questions. They spoke on integration of the Norris/Commerce school system. Most of their family members became teachers, they said that for African Americans at that time (1940-1970) all you could be is a teacher. The oldest man, who's name I didn't write down, worked hard to bring change to that community. He brought people together to fight for the cleaning of arsenic polluted soil and water. He was in constant contact with the political leaders of the time, governor's of Texas, and presidential candidates. He wrote grants to bring in running water and electricity to the homes and churches. They talked about unofficial segregation of churches. It was a little disorganized but, they answered everyone's questions throughly.

@2:30 I went to the "Don't Be Silent," documentary viewing. It is a documentary about the "Shack People" outside of Rome during the 1960's and 70's. It was amazing. Firstly the cinematography was great. They used clips from that time as well as current video of the same people. A Catholic priest, Don Roberto decided to live with the "shack people." He started a school "725" where he helped them with their homework and then began teaching them his own curriculum. He thought them to have a political conscience. He had them write essays and poems speaking out on their circumstances. They sent it to the mayor, and fought for the right for a house. Don Roberto didn't want to live as the rich do, he is believes that materialism is the downfall of society. He also points out that the followers of Jesus were the poor, the outcasts and the people without hope. Those people are the ones that rise up to make a difference.