Welcome monsters and ghouls to my spooky new series of Writing into the Day. This series will feature texts that certainly go bump in the night and you may want to keep your lights on for some of these spine-chilling reads! To start off my special Spooktober edition of Writing into the Day podcasts, today’s podcast will be featuring a poem by Siegfried Sassoon.
 
As I read this poem, I want you to think about ghosts and the possible purposes of ghostly hauntings. In this poem, Graves writes about his former friends from the war and how they seem to “haunt” him. I want you to think about HOW Graves’ friends seemingly haunt him and WHY he cannot stop thinking about them. Keep these ideas in mind as I read.&nbsp;

Spooktober Edition: Episode 2

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.