<p>Today’s podcast will be featuring a poem by J. Patrick Lewis, “1938.” As I read this poem, I want you to think about 2020. What are the memorable events of 2020? How has 2020 been different than other years? If you had kids, what would you tell them about this year? Keep these ideas in mind as I read.</p>

Pathways and Resistance

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.