<p>Today’s podcast will be featuring a poem by Carole Boston Weatherford, “You Go to My Head.” As I read this poem, I want you to think about pride. How do you show pride? Appreciating your accomplishments and boasting about your greatness can seem like a delicate line to walk. Keep these ideas in mind as I read.</p>
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Imagining Your Hometown

In this series, I will be reading mentors texts and providing you and your students some quickwriting and/or discussion-based writing ideas. Writing can seem very challenging, especially to students who haven’t had a ton of practice. So, providing short, consistent and relatively low-risk opportunities to write can make all the difference in eliminating the intimidation factor that often comes with on-demand writing. I usually like my students to start our sessions by beginning with a quickwrite or, what I like to call, Writing into the Day.