"We have been created to help each other" ~Grace Lyimo, Kisa Project Scholar

Week 3: NANOWRIMO

Writing Norms:
1. Get help from everyone! (all teachers, writing buddies, and writing families)
2. Earn headphones to listen to music on pandora.com or playlist.com
3. Some days we will all listen to a new type of music.
4. Be respectful of the classroom environment.
5. Come in, sign out your computer and login to NANOWRIMO as soon as you come into the classroom.
6. Check the Holler if you Hear Me Box, Lying Cup, and Photographs for inspiration!

Tentative Schedule: (check calendar and outside of class for details!)
Week 1: Describe and develop characters
Week 2: Develop setting using imagery and sensory details
Week 3: Develop plot
Week 4: Check and edit dialogue, voice and mechanics
Goal: 50,000 words by November 30th, 1,666 words /day, about 167 pages!

Here's another video I'd like y'all to watch. It's about a student in Dar Es Salaam, Grace Lyimo. Through the Kisa Project she is getting an education which she believes will make her dreams come true, and then what does she want to do? Help orphans, beggars and the disabled. She also says we should carry someone else's problems as our own. Now there's some real swagger :)

Look forward also to an upcoming speaker in class, Amel Bahloul Benhssen! She is from Tunisia which is on the northern tip of Africa. She is here on a Fulbright Scholarship and teaching at Birmingham-Southern College.