{"id":1899,"date":"2016-05-04T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2016-05-04T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T17:28:08","slug":"why-read-and-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1899","title":{"rendered":"Why read and write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say it my ed classes, I say it to student teachers, I say to myself:  if I can&#8217;t answer why we have to do something in a convincing, thoughtful way that shows that I have a solid rationale then we shouldn&#8217;t be doing it in class.   I also think that you have to return to this conversation over and over again.   Over and over.   <\/p>\n<p>With so many independent projects, I have a pretty basic requirement for each week: 50 pages of reading and 500 words of prose.   Sometimes the students find the readings, sometimes I do; they can design their own deliverables, build on my recommendations, or have me design it for them.   <\/p>\n<p>Today we spent five minutes writing about why our school has this requirement for projects.  Here are three of the answers:  <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidelinecast\/26211220804\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"whyreadwrite05042016\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7085\/26211220804_4a88d82632.jpg?resize=303%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"303\" height=\"500\" alt=\"whyreadwrite05042016\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say it my ed classes, I say it to student teachers, I say to myself: if I can&#8217;t answer why we have to do something in a convincing, thoughtful way that shows that I have a solid rationale then we shouldn&#8217;t be doing it in class. I also think that you have to return &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why read and write?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2015_2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-uD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}