[etni] Re: creative writing in school....
- From: David Graniewitz <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: saragabai@xxxxxxxxx, "ETNI list" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:40:12 +0200 (IST)
Well, Sara, as they say, "Boker Tov, Eliyahu."
This has been one of my complaints for years. I cannot
remember a time when one of my own kids was asked to write
something imaginative or creative themselves.
When I was at school I remember writing stories every week.
One of the biggest problems that I have to deal with is when a
5 pointer sits staring at the subject that I have given him to
write a composition on and says "I haven't got anything to
write about."
Kids have not been taught to think for themselves. This is
something that needs to be done at primary school level.
David Graniewitz
Jerusalem
I gave my 10th grade an assignment to write a short story
(120-140
words, what else?) that ends with a specific sentence from the
literature they are studying. (not my original idea, taken
from jack
p.'s "romeo and juliet" unit.) as usual, most of them did very
well -
they seem to have gotten used to this crazy teacher who forces
them to
write poems and stories.
but we started talking about creative writing and it seems
that in NO
OTHER SUBJECT are they ever asked to write anything creative.
not in
lashon/chibur, not in sifrut, not in anything! i think that is
horrible!
i hope that at least in elementary school they did some
creative
writing (i didn't think to ask them.)
so here is another thing where we are at the "cutting edge" -
maybe
after the HOTS the MOE should start working on this. (and i am
not
saying that we should get paid for this - it is such a basic
part of
teaching.)
sara g
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