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My Writing Territories and Inspiration Sources
1. my writing terretories.notebook August 24, 2012
August 24, 2012
7th Grade Language Arts/Writing Workshop
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2. My Writing Territories
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Family Doug, Taylor, Ruby, Henry!! August 24, 2012
• Wedding on the beach in Key West!!
• Ruby's obsession with the zoo, the pool, and diving on the couch
• Prayers/journal
• Books reviews
• My mom everything that she went with cancer, information/memories
to share with Taylor, Ruby, and Henry
• My students what they do each day as they become better students
• St. Johncurriculum, methods, letters, scripts, presentations for other
teachers; Thesis paper packet
• Friends how they have influenced me; toasts for weddings; letters to
them
• Short stories my dad, growing up
• Newspaper articles for The Sower
• Teaching why I love it
• Australia nature, Milo, People to People
• Europe culture, architecture
• Mountain Dew, Snickers, and other vices of mine
• Childhood memories Wilma, running into a parked car, trying to put
an ad in the paper so someone could adopt my brothers
• Moving Out of dads; to college; to St. Louis
• Divorce essays in college; help for teenagers facing their parents
divorce
• Yadi
• Meeting Moe Williams
• Devotions
• Football
• Example papers for students
• Letters to companies
• Masters class essays St. John, lessons, research
• Poetry I am from reading, growing up
• Diary entries with Mrs. Durst
• Journals in my scrapbook pages
• Our dream to move to Key West and start a Bed and Breakfast
• My obsession with Pride and Prejudice, especially the movie...no one
can be Mr. Darcy
• Potty training Ruby this summer
• Growing up with my best friend Marygrade school, high school, college
• The Grand Canyon Trip with 8th graders
• Casting Crowns their music, meeting them, just the right moment
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3. my writing terretories.notebook August 24, 2012
In collecting your writing territories, consider....
• memories: early, earlier, and recent • favorites, now and then
• obsessions • pets, now and then
• idiosyncrasies • teachers, now and then
• problems • places: school, camp, trips, times
• dreams away with friends and relatives
• itches • hobbies
• understandings • sports
• confusions • games
• passions • music
• sorrows • books
• risks • poems
• accomplishments • songs
• fears • movies
• worries • writers and artists
• fantasies • food
• family, close and distant • pet peeves
• friends, now and then • beloved things-objects and
• fads possessions-now and then
• all the loves of your life
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