Comments on: Candy Bar Creativity http://www.essentialprose.com/change-choose/candy-bar-creativity Creative, conscious living. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:53:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lindsay Price http://www.essentialprose.com/change-choose/candy-bar-creativity/comment-page-1#comment-2189 Lindsay Price Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:22:15 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=957#comment-2189 Nicely done! Flashes of creativity can certainly come at random, but if you're going to write (or create whatever) on a regular basis there has to be some pattern or structure. I love this structure. And Snickers. .-= Lindsay Price´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theatrefolk/~3/txrneLkeyp8/" rel="nofollow">I’d totally go as Richard III.</a> =-. Nicely done! Flashes of creativity can certainly come at random, but if you’re going to write (or create whatever) on a regular basis there has to be some pattern or structure. I love this structure. And Snickers.
.-= Lindsay Price´s last blog ..I’d totally go as Richard III. =-.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.essentialprose.com/change-choose/candy-bar-creativity/comment-page-1#comment-2169 Ryan Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:11:28 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=957#comment-2169 Hi, Caren. Imagery has many applications and can definitely apply to your teaching. I used to teach Spanish to middle school kids, and it seemed I could capture both the attention and learning of the majority of students with simple imagery of words. The other kids I had to bribe. With candy. :) .-= Ryan´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.henzabits.net/passion-and-perfection" rel="nofollow">Control Your Passion, Achieve Perfection (Without Action Movies)</a> =-. Hi, Caren. Imagery has many applications and can definitely apply to your teaching. I used to teach Spanish to middle school kids, and it seemed I could capture both the attention and learning of the majority of students with simple imagery of words. The other kids I had to bribe. With candy. :)
.-= Ryan´s last blog ..Control Your Passion, Achieve Perfection (Without Action Movies) =-.

]]> By: Caren http://www.essentialprose.com/change-choose/candy-bar-creativity/comment-page-1#comment-2160 Caren Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:29:25 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=957#comment-2160 I love this. It's only 9:15 in the morning and you've made me hungry for candy. But in all seriousness, I'm not really an artist. So while reading, I was thinking of how to apply this theory to my teaching. And it hit me - it takes some of my students a long time (forever, in some cases) to understand why and how we analyze literature. "Remarque uses imagery to make the reader feel like she or he is there in the story." But where is the peanutty truth?? "So what?" as you wrote. I admit though, I can't eat nuts so I may have to find a replacement vehicle for the metaphor, but I'm going to use this with my students this year. Thanks for sharing! I love this. It’s only 9:15 in the morning and you’ve made me hungry for candy.

But in all seriousness, I’m not really an artist. So while reading, I was thinking of how to apply this theory to my teaching. And it hit me – it takes some of my students a long time (forever, in some cases) to understand why and how we analyze literature. “Remarque uses imagery to make the reader feel like she or he is there in the story.” But where is the peanutty truth?? “So what?” as you wrote.

I admit though, I can’t eat nuts so I may have to find a replacement vehicle for the metaphor, but I’m going to use this with my students this year. Thanks for sharing!

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