Mr.K'sBlog

 4/18 Bomer book Reaching into memory Is the first bomer strategy for writing to think. Memory is a strong part of every person, its very safe to ask a student to draw from memory to encourage them to think.  Thinking about a person also follows this trend, allowing a student to call upon the familiar. The separation of the journal from the negativity of school in a child's mind is very important according to what I've gathered from Bomer in Intentional strategies versus assignments. 

 Slice of life. Today a student was trying to conceal an injury, he was dead set on playing soccer on hairline fractures in his foot, Limping in pain he quiqly ditched his bandages and forced me to confront him about it. Perhas one of the more surreal moments in teaching, and he was very upset I made him tell the truth. But as a teacher his safety was paramount to my role. 

 Book Head Heart I'll go into something interesting about the book that got confirmed by the author himself in an interview.  In the book New Kid, I read about the bully character and felt he had a distinct role as a driving villain, and that the author wanted me to know that.  It would seem that the author really intended for me to think that as well.  In my heart I think I softened up a lttle to kids who havnt learned how to work out their toxicity.