psa and i need some writing assistance, or possibly just a smack upside the head
happy birthday (a day late >.< ) amchara! swimmer, journalist, fangirl, completely adorable canadian. cupcake? glitter? grad school in the uk? :D
dancing boys: *hippy shake*
i have now completely forgotten everything else i wanted to say. most of it had to do with the story i want to write about the guy with the suddenly-rediscovered uncle, and the fact i'm not sure whose story i ultimately want to tell, and if you were a teacher of small(ish) children, and you wanted to do a unit on geneology - maybe in conjunction with american history, i don't know - about what grade makes sense for that? the kind of unit on geneology that requires kids to get hold of some old family photos and tape or glue them to posterboard to make illustrated family trees, and ask their folks and/or grandfolks about when their people first came to the us, and from where. or do kids not do that kind of thing in school any more? would they be scanning said photos and making slideshows with them? (i vaguely remember doing this when i was wee - not with the pictures, tho - and getting my mom to tell me about how my grandfather fell off a train when he and his sisters and his mom were crossing europe, and his mom made the conductor stop the train so she could get him. [1] also i think that was when my dad informed me that my great-grandmother had been a bar wench.) (ie, her parents owned an inn/tavern.) because i think that's how the guy finds the photo that leads him to the random uncle - he's digging around in his parents' basement to find some old pictures so he can do the geneology unit with his students. or is that kind of a dumb idea?
i want to submit it for writing group because my writing group is really helpful, but i haven't started writing yet because i'm so unclear on what exactly i want to be writing. >.< argh.
[1] this makes a great story, but in fact i think what really happened was the conductor said no, i'm not stopping this train so you can retrieve your son, and at the next town, my great-grandmother and her remaining kids got off and somehow managed to find my grandfather. i think. but the part about him falling off the train, that's true.
dancing boys: *hippy shake*
i have now completely forgotten everything else i wanted to say. most of it had to do with the story i want to write about the guy with the suddenly-rediscovered uncle, and the fact i'm not sure whose story i ultimately want to tell, and if you were a teacher of small(ish) children, and you wanted to do a unit on geneology - maybe in conjunction with american history, i don't know - about what grade makes sense for that? the kind of unit on geneology that requires kids to get hold of some old family photos and tape or glue them to posterboard to make illustrated family trees, and ask their folks and/or grandfolks about when their people first came to the us, and from where. or do kids not do that kind of thing in school any more? would they be scanning said photos and making slideshows with them? (i vaguely remember doing this when i was wee - not with the pictures, tho - and getting my mom to tell me about how my grandfather fell off a train when he and his sisters and his mom were crossing europe, and his mom made the conductor stop the train so she could get him. [1] also i think that was when my dad informed me that my great-grandmother had been a bar wench.) (ie, her parents owned an inn/tavern.) because i think that's how the guy finds the photo that leads him to the random uncle - he's digging around in his parents' basement to find some old pictures so he can do the geneology unit with his students. or is that kind of a dumb idea?
i want to submit it for writing group because my writing group is really helpful, but i haven't started writing yet because i'm so unclear on what exactly i want to be writing. >.< argh.
[1] this makes a great story, but in fact i think what really happened was the conductor said no, i'm not stopping this train so you can retrieve your son, and at the next town, my great-grandmother and her remaining kids got off and somehow managed to find my grandfather. i think. but the part about him falling off the train, that's true.