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[Play_Doh]

Effective literacy practice for emergent writers....Im looking for some good ideas for teaching points and learning outcomes for children that use poetic language stucture and are beginning to shape ideas and use the common conventions of writing and organisation...justification of teaching points through understanding of the writing process and writing stage of an emergent writer and reader ie:modelling, joint construction and independant construction.

Any ideas appreciated...

[Wangja]

Yes, rather often in fact old chap. Commands a lot of respect in the evening line 2 rush hour. `_^

[Play_Doh]

cheap bottles of good wine are fine my son....do you have a suggestion?

[captain kirk]

You write like a swat team riding a steamroller, and emergent artificial intelligence half man half machine without stopping for unecessary breath/maintenance.

[Paji eh Wong]

Never trust a man in a bow tie. A tie's entire raison d'etre is to draw attention downward to a gentleman's special zones. Ergo, anyone in a bow tie is asexual or has something to hide.

[Wangja]

hahaha!! great for spilling soup though ... far cheaper to wash a shirt than throw away a silk tie ....

[mindmetoo]

A stack of 10 won coins to anyone who can figure out what exactly he's trying to say.

[Ihavenolips]

I couldn't bother to figure out what was being said. I jumped ahead instead and hit the submit response button.

No I don't wear bow ties. It is a physical impossibility to wear one and not look like a geek. I do wear ties as often as possible. However, two of my best silk ties have been destroyed by hagwon children. They love to grab at my ties and to stain them with marker pens or chocolate-covered fingers. That was all it took to convince me to stop wearing ties to class (unless it is one comprised only of adults). The children have also ruined several nice dress shirts by reaching into my pockets of climbing on my back. However, I still wear dress shirts and slacks when I teach...

.... you gotta have some standards.

[captain kirk]

When I was in Taiwan looking for a job for a couple of weeks, I stayed with a friend of mine from Uni days. He was really wrapped tight, and a real piece of work. Very smart, but he had a fixation about being a writer. He sent his stuff out but editors sent him rejection slips saying 'no one wants to read this because it's too abstract'. So he framed all his writing with the idea that he was a great writer first, and took pride in the rejection because no-one understood his greatness. Because they weren't great.
Well, he's working with kids in a hagwon in Taiwan. Who don't understand his greatness and one day a kid wrote on his shirt with a marker and he poked the kid in the eye with a pencil. The child went to the hospital and the boss forced him to apologize to the parents. His Taiwanese girlfriend worked double time smoothing things with everybody, boss, parents. He kept his job.
That guy made me crazy, he liked driving everybody crazy. It was like comedy, but serious. Everything had to be his way. His vision. If we went to a foodfair he freaked out, told everybody it was just wrong, and wanted to go somewhere else. Tantrums. He once threw his typewriter out a 20 story apt window because he was 'frustrated with his art'.
The whole time I knew him it was like being a psychologist, and I'm not even qualified.

[shawner88]

I work in a public school. I wore a tie to work for the first couple of weeks until I realized I was the only person in the school besides the principal who was wearing one.

[livinginkorea]

Apart from the first few weeks I haven't worn a tie at work for about 7 months. It's great to wear whatever I want but still it was a complete waste of time bringing over my shirts and ties from Ireland.

[mindmetoo]

[Dr. Buck]

Neckties are for slaves, bow ties are for people who really like being slaves.

Who wants to tie a noose around their neck first thing in morning? And have the silky dishrag flopping about on your chest all day?

*beep* neckties and the history that invented them and the fashion industry that keeps making them.

[katydid]

[mindmetoo]