Archive for April, 2007

Be I…

Friday, April 20th, 2007

‘If I would be like him,
Who would be like me?’
 
- An old quote thanks to the brilliance of Barry, a brother of a beautiful friend of mine, Annie, and my friend too… 

Visual Mapping - Another way to Story

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source
The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

A World Without Story

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

"A world without
story is like a
dynamite blowing
the whole world.
No writing, no story.
There is
nothing in this world
without story"
by MeiKei, grade 3, excerpted from "I Am a Pencil" by Sam Swope (p94)
 
Thanks to Shula for the book as a gift - and Sam, I look forward to meeting you