"Language is our canoe up the wilderness river, our bush plane, our space capsule, our magic. Instead of 'now you see it, now you don't,' using language works in reverse: 'now you don't see it, now you do.'" (Romano, 170)
This is the epitome of what I believe writing should be. I completely repeating myself by saying this as I did in the "I believe" post, but you have to become Stephen King in your writing (compliments of my high school peer editor). Many times we envision what we read - get a picture in our head about what it looks like. But I believe it should go beyond this. A writer should allow their audience to feel their writing. Language is such a powerful tool that our students in which our students should be equipped. As a Spanish teacher, I feel as if I increase grammar knowledge and vocabulary in English as well as in the foreign language. For example: the word edificio in Spanish refers to the word building in English, but the actual cognate is edifice. One out of 56 eighth grade students answered this correctly, but now 55 more now the word.
Monday, July 2, 2007
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