When I got the assignment to read twelve pages in the grammar book, I was sort of dreading it expecting it to be incredibly boring..but I really actually enjoyed it. I loved the way it encouraged you to look at the writer as an artist "painting images of life with specific and identifiable brush strokes." (pg.1). That image was something totally different than I had thought of writing before. I really appreciated the way the book encouraged the writer to use an "artists eye" when painting their picture with words. The five brush strokes is definitley a teaching concept I had never heard of but would be a really neat concept to use in my classroom. I felt like it made me think of my own writing in a whole new way so I can imagine that it could help a high school student tremendously.
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Good! To be completely honest, I thought the same thing when I knew we were assigning 12 pages, but I also knew the book is full of helpful information and ideas for future teachers, so I think it's a helpful resource to use.
I think that my own writing has improved as I begin to think of how I might add some of Noden's structures into the pieces that I create. I enjoy how he provides students with different patterns of imagery that they can follow to create improved and artful pieces of writing.
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