Hi Teachers!

I can't believe how quickly Teachers Write has gone by. I hope you enjoyed all the lessons as much as I did! Kate Messner is a wonderful teacher, friend, mentor and coach!

For your final warm-up, I'd like to do a crowd sourcing exercise. Mainly, we will pool our ideas together and I will share a final follow up post once I've gathered everyone's goals. Are you ready?


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I know that during the school year everyone gets super busy. It's hard to find time for our own writing. But what if you had some simple daily goals to help you stay in the habit of daily writing. Better yet, what if you could schedule just 5-10 minutes a day with your students to write together?

For this final Monday Morning Warm-Up, come up with one small writing goal for each day of the week. For example:

Monday: Write a haiku or short poem

Tuesday: Write 500 words

Wednesday: Use a writing prompt to add something fresh to your work in progress, or to discover something new!

Thursday: Write an active scene using mostly dialogue

Friday: Choose an emotion (sad, angry, worried) and write a scene using actions and dialogue that show this emotion, rather than spelling out how your character feels.

Share your 5 ideas/goals in the comments and I'll make a master list and post it at the end of the week! Then, you'll have all kinds of ideas to chose from each day. If we get enough, we'll have daily goals and writing prompt ideas to get us through the whole school year! Please share far and wide so we can get as many ideas as possible. Let's do this! And thanks for being here!

Jo