In Walking Trees, Ralph Fletcher emphasizes the importance of writing to create an imagination for the young students. In the readings assigned for this week you can see and personally feel with the students life's as most openly write about their real life stories. Some were pleasant others not so much. For example, Tanya who was phsically abused by her mother than moved with her father who rapped her and was eventually sent to a home at such a young age. Or the other young girl who was literally afraid to write because her mother was so overpowering that if she found out she was writting about personal problems, her mother would some how find out and abuse her. Many of these young girls had several responsibilities and held chores that an adult would have. Cleaning, cooking, taking care of siblings. How about school? When would they ever have time to do homework or even class work when all these duties are running through their minds.
Ralph makes sure that the students feel comfortable writing about themselves by sharing thoughts and feelings with the rest of the class. By using this method several classmates gave advice to the students in need. This created a community within the classroom. This helps one realize that every child comes from a different home which causes their behavior in the classroom. Being in school is the only time to reflect and be in an atmosphere that is either relieving and fun or miserable depending on their experiences.
Writing is a form of communication which helps the student reflect on their experiences. This technique is essential to create a community within the classroom amongst all the students. Being left out makes one feel unwanted or unliked. Ralph truely knows how to put the broken peices together to create a happy community within the schools.
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Shereen, I definitely agree. Writing is a way for students to open up. Students can use writing as their outlet. I believe writing and sharing their writing can help students open up to each other and hopefully bring them together as a class. You are right, students come from all different types of backgrounds and I believe all students can learn from one another. Every student will be able to contribute something else to the class.
I agree as well, and this is what I wrote in my blog, too. Writing helps the students to open up to each other and I thought it was amazing when the students were giving each other advice on how to handle their personal problems and issues. This is something that has not happened to me as a young student, but I definitely feel that being able to open up to your classmates and sharing with one another will definitely have a good impact on them as they get older.
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