{"id":68001,"date":"2020-03-27T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=68001"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:37:40","slug":"creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/writing\/creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Place For Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Writing<\/h5>\n<h3>Goals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>generate a daily writing habit<\/li>\n<li>process emotions, thinking and wonderings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Learning Task<\/h3>\n<p>A writer\u2019s notebook might be a new idea for you. It is a place for you to capture your thinking and wonderings about your world. It is a place to explore ideas and develop the habit of writing and expression. You are being asked to write daily in your writer\u2019s notebook, capturing your thoughts, questions, comments, and concerns about the events that are unfolding. I want you to capture this history\u2014your history\u2014any way you\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>Physically, a writer\u2019s notebook is anything that you can write in and keep to refer back to. It might look like an exercise notebook, or a binder with loose leaf paper, or something else altogether. The most important thing to remember is that it is yours.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some suggestions for your daily writing, but you do not need to follow them. Feel free to generate your own thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Some possibilities for daily writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capture how this virus has disrupted your school year\u2014including sporting events, concerts, assemblies, dances, other<\/li>\n<li>Discuss how your daily life has been impacted-in positive, neutral and negative ways<\/li>\n<li>Share the effect it has had on your friends and family<\/li>\n<li>Record what you notice and appreciate in your life that you might not have before<\/li>\n<li>Consider how you might have changed because of this experience<\/li>\n<li>Indicate what you have learned in the last days and weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), please <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/2mKpHeCVnbZjJRRWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">share your journal entry using this form<\/a>. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and is your personal choice to share.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from K. Gallager and used with permission, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer\u2019s notebook might be a new idea for you. It is a place for you to capture your thinking and wonderings about your world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72722,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68001\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}