Category Archives: Day in Sentence

Last week’s call for Days in a Sentence moved the reflective writing activity over to Twitter and a lot of folks added their “six word” day in a sentence.

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Thanks to everyone who participated. This coming week, head over to Tracy’s blog to add your reflective Day in a Sentence, inspired by the month of June.

Peace (in the days),
Kevin

Here are the instructions for this week’s Day in a Sentence. I used Sketchcast again, although my microphone didn’t work. I want us to use Twitter this week for a six word reflection that uses the hashtag of #sixworddays

Peace (in the days),
Kevin

It has been a bit of time since I was the host of Day in Sentence. The writing activity has been making the rounds with all sorts of blogging friends, but now it comes back home. (Also, check out the article I wrote for LEARN NC about teaching writing in online communities where I mentioned our Day in a Sentence project)

I’m going to keep things simple and traditional, at least in the gathering of your words.

• Reflect on your day or your week;
• Boil it down into a single sentence;
• Post your sentence here as a comment to this blog post;
• I will gather up the sentences and publish them this weekend in some format (still thinking);
• That’s it!

Here is my Day in a Sentence:

I looked around my classroom yesterday and all I saw were creative movie producing teams hard at work in just about every space you could imagine and there were no signs of slacking in the bunch.

Peace (in the sharing),
Kevin

My friend up north, Cheryl, is hosting this week’s Day in a Sentence and she is using Wallwisher for the activity. (Wallwisher is a virtual bulletin board). So, please, visit Cheryl’s Wallwisher, leave her a note with your Day in a Sentence, and come on back over the weekend to read what others have shared.

Go to Day in a Sentence on the Wall

Or do it here:

Peace (in your days),
Kevin

My good friend from New Zealand, Ken — A Blogger in Middle-Earth –is taking over as guest host for this week’s Day in a Sentence. Given the news from the world about volcanoes and such, Ken asks that we take our sentence to the extreme — really kick your reflection up a notch, if you can.

Not sure how Day in a Sentence works?

• Go to Ken’s Post
• Reflect on your week or a day in your week
• Boil it down to a single sentence
• Use the comment link at Ken’s blog post to share your sentence
• Ken will release them all to the world over the weekend

So come join us.

And as Ken would say:

Peace (in the sharing),
Kevin

Hi

Amanda is hosting this week’s Day in a Sentence, and she is collecting your reflective sentences with the intent of gathering and posting them all sometimes next weekend (so don’t panic).

Please join Amanda at her blog for this week’s Day in a Sentence.

Peace (in the words),

Kevin

Mary is hosting this week’s Day in a Sentence and her call for words is one that I don’t think we have done yet. She asks you to reflect on your week or your day by comparing it to a ship or boat.

Come join us over at Mary’s blog, Writing With Technology.

Leave your sentence/metaphor at her blog in the comment box, and she will be collecting and then publishing them all together in the coming days. Everyone is invited (that means you, dear reader).

Peace (on the waves),
Kevin

I am running a bit late with Day in a Sentence, which asked for a Day in a Tabloid Headline. But here they are, and I was happy that a few of you took me up on teh offer to use the newspaper generator, which is fun to use.

First, the ones on their own:

• Teacher sets new record for consecutive days of playing catch-up. — Mr. Mansour
• RESTORING JUSTICE
  Teachers learn how to resolve conflict and assist healing using restorative conversations. — Shaun
• GRADUATION EXAMS FINALLY FINISHED–NO REPORTED FATALITIES AMONG STUDENTS OR FACULTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Art
• MOM AND DAD RECEIVE SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WOMB: I AM A GIRL!!!!!! — sara (yeah!!)
• Teachers, students – missing! — Tracy (spring break report)
• STRUGGLING SECOND GRADER LEARNS TO READ, REPORTS “MOBY DICK WAS GREAT. I’M READING CRIME AND PUNISHMENT NEXT.” — Matt
• KEEP THE N IN NWP! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN! — Bonnie

And here are the newspaper headlines, which I decided to share as a Flickr slideshow, but which means that the names of the contributors get left off, so thanks to: Connie, Aram, Lynn J., Lynne C., and Nancy C. for their submissions here (plus, I added my original and a new one).

Peace (in the daze),
Kevin

So, we missed last round of Day in a Sentence. Sorry about that. And I am away this weekend, so all collections of your words will have to wait to be published until early next week. Which gives you plenty of time to boil down the essence of your day or y0ur week, and then use a bit of hyperbole, and (this was a suggestion from one of you), create a DAY IN A TABLOID HEADLINE.

Sure, use capital letters. Exclamation points are good, too. It’s all about the shouting this week. And word play. So, have fun with your DAY IN A TABLOID HEADLINE!!!!!!!!

You can submit your headline by using the comment box on this post. All the headlines will go into my holding cell, where I shall feed the words on bread and water until they give up the truth and nothing but the truth. Freedom is but a week away, however.

🙂

Here is mine — it has to do with a big Benefit Concert we are doing tonight to collect books for needy schools and donations for Pennies for Peace. My brain is full with the planning of it. I used the fun Newspaper Clipping Image Generator to create mine (if you want to do the same, then email the photo file to dogtrax(at)gmail(dot)com and I will include it).

Peace (and I mean it!),
Kevin