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jenniferhom: this is the kind of trippy awkwardness i get for trying something new.   i was chatting with willie about how awesome miyazaki’s color pencil story boards would look if they were animated.  the natural progression of that idea was, “hey, i should try to make something move with color pencil!”  fast forward 3 hours and you have a genius idea turned into a horrible execution. a part of me feels guilty for spamming the web with amateur animated gifs.  the rest of me is kind of amused by its silliness.   i can just picture my animator friends pinching my cheeks, “aw, look at the little illustrator trying to animate 6 frames of nonsense.” :(
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jenniferhom:

this is the kind of trippy awkwardness i get for trying something new.  

i was chatting with willie about how awesome miyazaki’s color pencil story boards would look if they were animated.  the natural progression of that idea was, “hey, i should try to make something move with color pencil!” 

fast forward 3 hours and you have a genius idea turned into a horrible execution.

a part of me feels guilty for spamming the web with amateur animated gifs.  the rest of me is kind of amused by its silliness.  

i can just picture my animator friends pinching my cheeks, “aw, look at the little illustrator trying to animate 6 frames of nonsense.”

:(

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.
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teacher-mentor: These are two of my favorite classroom resources, mostly because they rely on an information delivery system that kids don’t expect just by seeing the covers: In Tina Packer’s Tales from Shakespeare, the classic plays have been turned into short stories, almost like fairy tales, and they have lush illustrations that change in style for each play. The retellings are true to the plot and spirit of the originals, and when I taught tenth graders who were struggling readers, they were very successful and well received. The book includes King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello, among others. In Poetry Speaks, I love the wide-ranging list of poems, but what I love even more is the cd that comes with the book. On it, you can listen to Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Sylvia Plath (along with 46 other poets) reading their work. It’s great for showing the students how poets read their work, and models how to read poetry well aloud. What’re your favorite books to share with your students?
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teacher-mentor: These are two of my favorite classroom resources, mostly because they rely on an information delivery system that kids don’t expect just by seeing the covers: In Tina Packer’s Tales from Shakespeare, the classic plays have been turned into short stories, almost like fairy tales, and they have lush illustrations that change in style for each play. The retellings are true to the plot and spirit of the originals, and when I taught tenth graders who were struggling readers, they were very successful and well received. The book includes King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello, among others. In Poetry Speaks, I love the wide-ranging list of poems, but what I love even more is the cd that comes with the book. On it, you can listen to Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Sylvia Plath (along with 46 other poets) reading their work. It’s great for showing the students how poets read their work, and models how to read poetry well aloud. What’re your favorite books to share with your students?
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teacher-mentor:

These are two of my favorite classroom resources, mostly because they rely on an information delivery system that kids don’t expect just by seeing the covers:

  • In Tina Packer’s Tales from Shakespeare, the classic plays have been turned into short stories, almost like fairy tales, and they have lush illustrations that change in style for each play. The retellings are true to the plot and spirit of the originals, and when I taught tenth graders who were struggling readers, they were very successful and well received. The book includes King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello, among others.
  • In Poetry Speaks, I love the wide-ranging list of poems, but what I love even more is the cd that comes with the book. On it, you can listen to Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce, and Sylvia Plath (along with 46 other poets) reading their work. It’s great for showing the students how poets read their work, and models how to read poetry well aloud.

What’re your favorite books to share with your students?

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