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Notes to self for next workshop:

1. Create & bring sample Story Maps pre-filled.
2. Some of those should be for well-known books & movies.
3. Start workshops with questions about what they learned last time.
4. Class voting for Story Map contents.
5. Make sure each student has one map item per exercise.
6. Add ‘name’ fields to materials.
7. The paper thing, re: last post.
8. Be mindful of my apparent obsession with lists.

Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper.

“I thought you said there wouldn’t be much paperwork,” said the sharp and precocious blond locked girl of twelve.

Yes, there was still too much paper. Why didn’t I learn from last time?

Yes, I gave out lots of paper. Yes, I babbled, though no one told me so. Whew.

Day 1 went swimmingly, despite the deluge of paper. I shall not provide mostly-blank pages for brainstorming lists anymore. I shall however continue much the same otherwise since the kids responded very well. I have full lists for each of the eight different brainstorming activities, and completed Story Maps from each of the nine students to prove it.

Kids is some smarties, I tells ya.

My co-teacher Eric Myers and I were quite impressed with the creativity and the willingness to contribute to the class dialogue.

And, as you can see by our own Story Map, we are well on our way to a riveting tale.

Until next week…

In October, fellow wordsmythe and creative maestro Eric Myers and I began a monthly creative salon. We just had our second one on Friday November 9th at Eric’s place in the Lower Haight. Marisa Egerstrom joined us, though our fourth current participant Nora Sawyer had to bail last minute. After only two meetings it has already branched out from simply a writing salon towards the multimedia where we evaluated a video piece and a vocal performance, not to mention Angie’s cooking. Pretty damn sweet I must say.

The pieces reviewed:

“Life of the Gallows” short story by Scott Lambridis