GLOBAL WRITING PARTNERS

Jodie K. Scales

Wapahani High School / Indiana Writing Project

Teacher Consultant

ITW Fall Conference – September 2013

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TAKING NOTES

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AGENDA

Short Introduction to Lilly Grant

Short Introduction to National and Indiana Writing

Projects

Nepal –Social Issues / Kamlari (Female Slavery)

Writers Notebooks

Mini-Lessons

Nepal / Special Needs

Questions

NEPAL

Founded by the Lilly

Teacher Creativity

Grant I was able to

travel to the small

landlocked country of

Nepal during the

summer of 2013.

MAKING CONNECTIONS

BRINGING SMILING FACES

BACK INTO THE CLASSROOM

KAMLARI

Poverty

Slavery / Kamlaris

Lack of Education / Opportunity

When the orphans are the lucky ones.• Michael Hess / Nepal Orphans Home• Volunteer Nepal

Giving their childhood back to them

Using Family Pictures

to teach English words

or phrases.

Nepali and English

words transcribed over

pictures.

One for each girl.• Donations from Facebook• Donations from IWP

Consultants & Fellow Teachers

Diaries / Journals / Writer’s

Notebook

ENGLISH PRACTICE

Family Picture Books Writers Notebooks

Hi !!!!!!!!! sister

 thank you so much .

 you are giving me a

beautiful diary

 love you so much sister

 love you always samjhana

“Writers are like other people, except for at

least one important difference. Other people

have daily thoughts and feelings, notice this

sky or that smell, but they don't do much

about it.

Not writers. Writers react. And writers need a

place to record those reactions. That's what a

writer's notebook is for. It gives you a place to

write down what makes you angry or sad or

amazed, to write down what you noticed and

don't want to forget . . . .” Ralph Fletcher

WRITER’S NOTEBOOKS

From Samjhana Why Writer’s Notebooks

MINI-LESSONS

Short Writing WorkshopsWorkshop 1 – My Message to the Girls

We all have a story to tell.Workshop 2 – Making the Writer’s Notebooks

Their OwnHeart Maps / Pictures / Stickers

Workshop 3 – ListsWhen something good happensWhen something bad happensWhen nothing happens

Workshop 4 – Ho Do I Feel?Workshop 5 – Writing for Yourself

“The Children of Nepal Orphans Home” at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2SkOjQtB_s    2012

“An Introduction to Papa’s House” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHjyJ3ulb0   2012

“A Nepal Orphans Home Christmas” at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMkKVkoGQs4     2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGtzL-Tr3s     2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzrLhZ5ATM        2008

Plus much more info on the web site  www.nepalorphanshome.org   in newsletters and updates that date back to 2006

And www.volunteernepal.net